Magic christians spiritual principles never have run too deep. They usually flock to someplace where they are easily forgiven to assuage their guilt and has a good band.
This is demonstrably false and the author of this piece is an idiot. There are enormous numbers of uncounted votes, and it takes 5 minutes of research to discover this.
At over 120 million votes -- we'll probably wind up with 123-124 mil, that's over 9 million voters...But Obama got over 61 million -- and will probably wind up with 63 or more million when the counting's done.
So who were the religious voters that gave Obama well past 50 million votes????
OK, I recrunched the #s and saw that I was overemphasizing white non-evangelical mainline Protestant #s...Below are all round #s...and equal about 51.5 million...but it's over 52 million total...
Approximate votes going Obama's way from religious voters:
* Latino Catholics (5% of voting pool): Over 4.5 million votes
* White Catholics (18% of voting pool): By the time's all counted, perhaps 10 million votes
* Other Catholic (2% of voting pool): Over 1 million votes
TOTAL CATHOLIC CONTRIBUTION: Over 15.5 million votes
* Jewish (2% of voting pool) - Over 1.5 million votes
* Other non-Christian faiths (7% of voting pool): Over 5.5 million votes
* Lds (2% of voting pool): Almost half a million votes
* Black Protestant (9% of voting pool) - By time it's all been counted, over 11 million voters
* White Mainline Protestant (14% of voting pool) - About 8 million voters by time it's all been counted
* White Evangelicals (24% of voting pool, rounded off) - About 6 million voters once they've all been counted ... about 5.6 million of earlier 120 million vote count ... iow, the #s Rosenberg was using for his article...
* Latino Evangelicals (Little over 1% of voting pool) - Less than a million voters
* Other minority Christian or Protestant (4% of voting pool) (Guessing 2.5 million voters)
TOTAL PROTESTANT CONTRIBUTION: About 28.5 million
Now, Protestants are 51% of voting pool; Catholics are 25% of voting pool...so we would expect for every Catholic vote, there would be 2 Protestant votes...
Had Protestants voted for Obama the same rate as Catholics, the total above would be over 31 million -- not 28.5 million...
Rather than attacking the most conservative group who voted more for Romney than any other Christian group you should be asking the rest of the so-called Christians to vote like the vast majority of evangelicals.
As for the attempt to charge evangelicals with poor turnout, polling data from The Faith and Freedom Coalition, an organization in Duluth, Ga., dedicated to educating and mobilizing people of faith to be effective citizens, revealed that the evangelical vote increased to 27 percent this year, with 78 percent of them voting for Romney and 21 percent for Obama. http://www.citizenlink.com/2012/11/08/surveys-evangelical-electorate-vote-increases/
Whew! We almost had a Mormon president. Thank God we got Obama instead!
Very interesting article. Thanks for posting it.
Catholic and “born again” voting for a pro abortion socialist?? They are not real Christians...only in name, not spirit.
O.K., among the 6 million self-professes Evangelicals who voted for Obama, how many are black
its a valid question given the high percentage of blacks who vote for Obama
if a high percentage of the Evangelical vote that voted for Obama was “black” Evangelicals, it would be valid to say race played a larger role in their vote than did their religion
Romney is not a conservative and did little to espouse them to the masses. Strike one.
He is a mormon and like it or not, a lot of christians could not bring themselves to vote for one. Strike two.
Like Rush said, it is hard to get people to vote for hard work when they get free goodies for themselves. We have too many parsites in this country. Once people found out them could vote for largesse, the end is near. Strike three.
Christians going to slaughter? Much like the jews in germany
Thanks for your ingnorance and your imaginary threat of a mormon in the WH. just one more group of selfish idiots who helped put us on the road to destruction. The only way to stop these globalist bastards are the people. They answered load and clear. enjoy the future
They have been fed social and progressive programming for a bunch of years now.
The Emergent/Purpose Driven Church. Rick Warren/Joel Olstein/contemplative spirituality/co-exist movement, and it is social programming and it is very effective.
At my last church, there were three speaking engagements- in the two months leading up to the election, with social justice leaders. It is HUGE industry and wildly popular. It is all over TV and books stores and radio. And the white suburban people were mesmerized and intoxicated with the message of the plight of the poor urban black man.
The church has been taken over as well.
That is what socialists do.
Of the 30 or more evangelicals I know, none of them would even consider voting for Obama. Some Catholics I know believe strongly in voting for Obama,..I have no idea why.
BTTT!