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Earlier this week, ESPN\u2019s analytics site FiveThirtyEight gave Hillary Clinton a 60 percent of winning the presidency in November. Should Clinton win this fall, however, it\u2019s unlikely she\u2019ll be thanking many evangelicals. According to a Pew Research Study from earlier this month, only 16 percent of evangelical voters said they would vote for her. Not only that, when asked about their motivation, an overwhelming number suggested that they were either voting for Donald Trump because they didn\u2019t like Clinton or were only voting Clinton because they disliked Trump more. (Overall: 30 percent supported Trump and would vote for him, 45 percent said they would vote for Trump because they did not want Clinton to win, 10 percent would be voting against Trump for Clinton and only 6 percent said they would vote Clinton because they backed her. Read CT\u2019s report.) This disdain has been around for a long time. Alan Noble, an English professor at Oklahoma Baptist University, remembers listening to talk radio disparaging Clinton back when he was a kid in the \u201990s. \u201cEvery time I [hear] the name Clinton, there\u2019s all this baggage, rhetoric, language, fear, anxiety, corruption, sliminess, conniving, big government baked into me [from when I was a child]\u201d said Noble, who is also the editor-in-chief of Christ and Pop Culture. What\u2019s behind these visceral reactions? \u201cThe history of American evangelicalism is critical in understanding how many things Clinton stands for that contradict the deeply held values of politically engaged evangelicals since the 1960s,\u201d said Kristin Du Mez, a\xa0historian at Calvin College and the author of a forthcoming book about Hillary Clinton\u2019s faith. \u201cOn so many issues, Hillary Clinton\u2014her politics and the way her faith informs [them]\u2014run against the values that the religious right has held dear. \u2026 There are very real religious and political differences here.\u201d Both Du Mez and Noble joined Morgan and Katelyn to discuss how Clinton\u2019s \u201cbaking cookie\u201d comments alienated her from stay-at-home moms, why she\u2019s largely stopped\xa0standing up for evangelicals, and how gender has affected her popularity among Christians.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices