Quite possible
Catholics wavering because of the Obamacare mandate decided they couldn’t vote for a ‘cultist’.
This makes no sense
And, well, evangelicals are buying into the whole social justice thing. Just a hunch.
Possibly, but more likely they couldn't vote for a 'cultist' and they were just very liberal protestants (Episcopalians, wymen priests, black 'christians', etc...) came out for Ibama.
Protestants went 57-42% for Romney. (White Evangelicals 78-21% for Romney) Source: CNN exit polls
I find it quite interesting in these threads that nobody is talking about Catholics, who went 50-48% for Obama.
(It is true that if you subtract Hispanic Catholics, that Romney won the White Catholic vote...but not by much)
Oh, and it wasn't just "fringe" religionists who helped Obama. While Romney indeed won the weekly church attender vote (59-39%), still, you're talking about Obama getting about 40% of the vote from people who attend church EVERY week (vs. the monthly goers), what does that say about their faith informing them about issues of character, social issues, etc?