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Strong Majority of Faith Voters Want 2024 Presidential Candidates to Prioritize Religious Freedom, Candidates to Express Faith


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Strong Majority of Faith Voters Want 2024 Presidential Candidates to Prioritize Religious Freedom, Candidates to Express Faith

Voters Overall Also Agree—77 Percent Support Free Expression of Religious Beliefs, 56 Percent Will Support a Candidate Who Expresses Their Faith

(Austin, TX—May 19, 2023) Convention of States Action, in partnership with The Trafalgar Group—one of America’s most accurate pollsters—is releasing the results of a new national survey. Results were from surveys conducted May 9th through May 12th of over 1,000 likely general election voters.

“These results show that religious freedom is not only a top of mind issue for voters as we head into the 2024 election cycle, but a defining issue that will shape their vote in the primary elections,” said Mark Meckler, President of the Convention of States. “And despite what the D.C. consultants say, the faith of those seeking to lead our nation is still important to voters today, just as it was at the founding of our nation. Faith voters are a powerful force in this nation, and they are watching candidates' actions just as much as their policy beliefs.”

For complete details on the poll, including graphics, please visit:
https://www.thetrafalgargroup.org/news/nat-issues-religious-expression-0517/ 

KEY INSIGHT: Vast Majority of Faith Voters Say Important for Americans to Have Freedom to Express Religious Beliefs in Public:

  • 85.8 percent of faith voters say it is important for Americans to be able to freely express their religious beliefs in news media and on social media:
    • 63.8 percent say very important
    • 22 percent say important
  • 14.2 percent of faith voters say it is not important for Americans to be able to freely express their religious beliefs in news media and on social media:
    • 8.4 percent say not very important
    • 5.8 percent say not important at all

KEY INSIGHT: Nearly 3/4 of Faith Voters Say They Are More Likely to Support Presidential Candidate in 2024 Who Publicly Expresses Their Faith and Religious Beliefs:

  • 73.8 percent of faith voters say they are more likely to support a candidate for the 2024 presidential election who expresses their religious beliefs and personal faith:
    • 24 percent say much more likely
    • 49.8 percent say more likely
  • 26.2 percent of faith voters say they are less likely to support a candidate for the 2024 presidential election who expresses their religious beliefs and personal faith:
    • 18.4 percent say less likely
    • 7.8 percent say much less likely

KEY INSIGHT: Majority of Voters Overall Place Priority on Right of Americans to Publicly Express Religious Beliefs:

  • 76.8 percent of voters say it is important for Americans to be able to freely express their religious beliefs in news media and on social media:
    • 51.8 percent say very important
    • 25 percent say important
  • 23.1 percent of voters say it is not important for Americans to be able to freely express their religious beliefs in news media and on social media:
    • 11.7 percent say not very important
    • 11.4 percent say not important at all

KEY INSIGHT: Majority of Voters Also More Likely to Support Presidential Candidate in 2024 Who Publicly Expresses Their Faith and Religious Beliefs:

  • 55.6 percent of voters say they are more likely to support a candidate for the 2024 presidential election who expresses their religious beliefs and personal faith:
    • 16.7 percent say much more likely
    • 38.9 percent say more likely
  • 44.4 percent of voters say they are less likely to support a candidate for the 2024 presidential election who expresses their religious beliefs and personal faith:
    • 27.8 percent say less likely
    • 16.6 percent say much less likely

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About Convention of States ActionWith a grassroots network of over 5 million supporters and volunteers, Convention of States’ mission is to restore a culture of self-governance in America and to curtail federal overreach. Its primary focus in accomplishing this mission is using a limited Article V Convention to propose constitutional amendments that impose limitations on the size and scope of the federal government, including a balanced budget requirement and term limits for federal officials.

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Physicians for COS

The diagnosis is clear.

We have a growing cancer today known as the Obamacare. As a result physicians are no longer free to practice medicine.

No profession feels the full force of the federal government more than physicians. The medical profession is the most highly regulated profession in the United States. The practice of medicine is controlled, taxed, and regulated to the point of being destroyed by the heavy hand of the federal government.

Physicians are told how to bill, how much to charge, and how to treat patients. They are mandated to use expensive electronic medical records. The federally enacted HIPPA (Health Information Privacy and Portability Act) makes the communication between physicians and atients burdensome, inefficient,and expensive. Every physician is required by federal mandate to register with the government to obtain an NPI (national provider identifier.) We are required by federal law to obtain and pay for a license to prescribe medication through the DEA, which is separate from our state licensure.

This heavy hand of government not only oversees the largest federal health bureaucracy ever created, but by extension reaches into every state, every city, and every small town to regulate how every licensed physician practices the art of medicine and how citizens obtain care.

The treatment is also clear.

The prescription for a cure was written into our constitution by our founders. Article V of our constitution allows for the states to call for a convention of states to limit the power and jurisdiction of the federal government through the proposal of constitutional amendments. Physicians should be the strongest supporters of this brilliantly-crafted states’ rights tool placed into our constitution by our founders.

I urge my fellow American physicians to join with me in supporting an Article V Convention of States to take back control of the practice of medicine. It’s the only way that we can return the practice of medicine back to the intimate relationship between a doctor and patient without interference by the heavy hand of a distant, national government.

Jeffrey I. Barke, M.D. Family Physician Newport Beach, CA
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