Focus on the Family listeners were intensely politically mobilized by the late 1980s

Evidence

In 1988, a survey found that 92 percent of Focus on the Family respondents voted in the presidential election, 79 percent had signed or circulated a petition, and 45 percent had boycotted a company or product. — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 199

Categorization

  • SHARE: Concrete survey numbers showing the political activation of Dobson’s audience — worth sharing with anyone studying evangelical political mobilization.
  • XREF: connects to: A broad pro-family coalition fractured along ideological lines in 1980 — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 230; Joint attention practices generate shared political power.
  • yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: A broad pro-family coalition fractured along ideological lines in 1980 — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 230; Joint attention practices generate shared political power.