Evangelicals expected to have less impact in NH than Iowa


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DURHAM, N.H. (AP) — Evangelicals are expected to play a smaller role in New Hampshire's primary than they did in Iowa's caucuses.

In New Hampshire, only about 20 percent of Republican voters are evangelical Christians. In Iowa's GOP caucuses, close to 60 percent were evangelical.

Dante Scala, a political science professor at the University of New Hampshire, says that changes the way most candidates campaign in the first primary state.

Scala says, "For New Hampshire voters, it's all right if politicians talk about religion in a generic sense, you know, like love thy neighbor, that sort of thing. But, they don't want to get too deep into the weeds so to speak about religious doctrine."

The Rev. Mark Warren of Grace Capital Church in Pembroke has urged his congregation to vote biblically, but also for whoever can best "govern and lead" the nation.

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