{"id":32045,"date":"2012-04-18T20:02:39","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T20:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/barna-how_the_faith_of_likely_2012_voters_affects_the_issues_they_care_abo\/"},"modified":"2012-04-18T20:02:39","modified_gmt":"2012-04-18T20:02:39","slug":"barna-how_the_faith_of_likely_2012_voters_affects_the_issues_they_care_abo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32045","title":{"rendered":"Barna&#8211;How the Faith of Likely 2012 Voters Affects the Issues They Care About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Which political issues will have the greatest influence on voters&#8217; decision of which presidential candidate to support? The answer to that question depends in part on the person&#8217;s spiritual leanings. A new nationwide survey by the Barna Group, conducted among people likely to vote in November&#8217;s election, indicates that the worldview of different religious segments of the population significantly impacts the issues they care about the most.<\/p>\n<p>Among all likely voters, regardless of their faith inclinations, the most influential issues are health care (said to influence their candidate selection &#8220;a lot&#8221; by 74% of likely voters), tax policy (62%), employment policies and strategies (54%), and plans regarding the nation&#8217;s dependence upon foreign oil (52%).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.barna.org\/culture-articles\/563-election-2012-priorities-how-the-faith-of-likely-voters-affects-the-issues-they-care-about\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which political issues will have the greatest influence on voters&#8217; decision of which presidential candidate to support? The answer to that question depends in part on the person&#8217;s spiritual leanings. A new nationwide survey by the Barna Group, conducted among<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32045\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,209,616,151,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}