The Christian Right in the Republican Party: The Case of Pat Robertson's Supporters

Using the results of an extensive mail survey of donors to Republican presidential candidate and party committees, we compare contributors to Pat Robertson's campaign with donors to right-wing and mainstream Republican committees. While measures of salience, ideology, religiosity, demography and partisanship show Robertson supporters to be distinctive in expected ways, they are remarkably similar to other kinds of Republicans in many other respects. These findings suggest that the Christian Right will be eventually assimilated into the Republican party.