Exit polls reveal that Conservative Christian voters are a large and growing political force that “cannot be ignored,” says the Faith and Freedom Coalition.

A Public Opinion Strategies survey, released Wednesday, shows that 32 percent of Americans who showed up at the polls this week identified themselves as part the Christian conservative movement. FFC says Tuesday night’s conservative turnout was the largest ever recorded in a midterm history.

“What we know from [Tuesday] is that one of the largest, if not the largest, single voting blocs in the electorate is conservative people of faith. They turned out in the largest numbers we’ve seen in a midterm election since these kinds of numbers have been kept,” said Ralph Reed, FFC founder and chairman.

Reed says the FFC worked long and hard to galvanize the Christian vote. The coalition targeted evangelicals and frequent mass-attending voters in parts of Florida, Pennsylvania, Nevada, California, and Ohio, among other places.

“It was the most ambitious, the most comprehensive, the most effective voter contact, get-out-the-vote effort in the conservative faith community in modern American political history,” proclaimed Reed.

The FFC reports that 29 percent of the conservative movement are evangelical Christians. These evangelicals reside in Southern and Midwestern states, research shows. Reed also said of these evangelicals, “They are the majority of the Tea Party movement.”

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