Question What percentage of the population of the United States can be called Christian evangelicals? Also, what is the number of people who are Christian evangelicals? I am using the term "evangelicals" although the term used in the past was Christian fundamentalists.
This information is needed to advance an argument about the political and social importance of the "religious right".
Answer Your question has a complicated answer since there are more than 33,000 Christian Denominations in the U.S.
The most recent and most complete study can be found here:
It is a study done in 2001 asking people what church they belonged to and whether they considered themselves conservative, etc.
As you review the findings (and there are a lot of them), you need to remember that when you finally get your number, not all of them vote, and not all of them vote a certain way.
In 2004 the "evangelical" vote (not including catholics) went about 80% for Bush, but there was no bigger turnout than in 2000. Catholics went for Bush 52%, but how many of these catholics consider themselves evangelical?
Here is a site I write that has some statistics in it concerning the "myths" of the 2004 election. You may be able to incorporate some of the numbers into your argument.
Just scroll down and look for the "Nine Myths" article.
