Evangelicals voted for Romney with 79%, and Catholic Americans with 48%, and you guys think that Evangelicals are the bad guys?
Who else gave Romney 79% of their vote, no one did.
Wrong...at least not per the exit polls released by the Pew Forum..
In 2004, Evangelicals were 21% of the voting block; 23% in 2008; and 24% in 2012...That's an increase!
Two religious group voting blocks that did shrink were white Protestants (mainliners who aren't Evangelical) -- fell from 42-39% since '08...and white Catholics, which dropped slightly.
Evangelical or Christian Conservatives refused to come out and vote for a Mormon. That’s all there is to it. [FryingPan101, post #31]
Also off-base...Per the Pew Forum exit poll results, Romney got the Mormon vote -- 78-21%. Compare that to white Evangelicals, & they gave Romney a 79-20% margin. Iow, white Evangelicals "out-Romneyed" even Mormon voters!!!
Source: How the Faithful Voted: 2012 Preliminary Analysis
[Ansel12 to FryingPan101; frogjerk; chickadee]: Evangelicals voted for Romney with 79%, and Catholic Americans with 48%, and you guys think that Evangelicals are the bad guys? Who else gave Romney 79% of their vote, no one did.
Good question.
Evangelical or Christian Conservatives refused to come out and vote for a Mormon. That’s all there is to it. [FryingPan101, post #31]
There is one red-blue dot geographical map -- up by a Mormon -- The Impact of Mitt’s Mormonism: Bible Belt Blue -- who did note a swath of blue running from Louisiana to the east all the way to North Carolina.
It seems particularly prominent in Mississippi, Alabama, and South Carolina.
Apparently -- at least the contention is made -- that in these states, there were a significant # of white Evangelicals who "stayed home."
The Lds poster concedes that it had no electoral college impact...given that "These are folks who knew their state was deep red, for the most part. So staying away from the polls wouldn’t change the outcome of the election."
Now, if it's true, then Evangelicals in other parts of the country more than made up for their absence since more voted in 2012 than either in 2008 or 2004.
So, I would say that if any claims want to be made about "stay at home" Evangelical voters, only the Deep South and Atlantic Coast (southeast) appears to show this evidence -- but not Florida.
If they voted.
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