[xzins]

The problem is that Evangelical voters did not turn out to vote on Tuesday, and this has become a persistent problem for the GOP since 1992 (2004 being the possible exception). You would think, of all elections, this would’ve been the one to vote in - but many of them chose not to vote rather than vote for a Mormon.

From the Christian Post: found at - http://www.christianpost.com/news/exit-polls-obama-gains-with-latinos-romney-gains-with-evangelicals-84574/

Despite concerns by some that Romney's Mormon faith would hurt his chances with evangelicals, Romney did better than McCain in 2008. McCain had 74 percent and Romney had 78 percent of the white evangelical vote.

White evangelicals' share of the electorate remained the same. They comprised about one in four voters, 26 percent, in both 2008 and 2012.

So, NFnet, did you simply not check before you made your comment about evangelicals? Is something else going on with you regarding evangelicals?

[xzins]

see /22

[xzins]

see #22

[superloser]

White evangelicals' share of the electorate remained the same. They comprised about one in four voters, 26 percent, in both 2008 and 2012.

Evidently, getting 26% of the electorate is not enough to win an election any longer.

A bigger tent is needed, and that means not necessarily compromising, but getting less strident about social issues that turn off the rest of the electorate you need in order to win.

[Tennessee Nana]

Despite concerns by some that Romney’s Mormon faith would hurt his chances with evangelicals
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More dishonesty and subterfuge in reporting

I believe the average reader is suppose to see something like...

“Despite concerns by some that Romney’s Methodist faith would hurt his chances with Episcopalians”

and not the truth...

Despite concerns by some that Romney’s Mormon faith would hurt his chances with CHRISTIANS

That phony term “evangalicals” has been beat to death this election cycle...

[wmfights]

Despite concerns by some that Romney's Mormon faith would hurt his chances with evangelicals, Romney did better than McCain in 2008. McCain had 74 percent and Romney had 78 percent of the white evangelical vote.

Thank you Xzins!

We show up and vote even when our deepest concerns are not given the attention they deserve.

This election has made it very clear that the traditional values that made this country EXCEPTIONAL are now PASSE. Pubs can try and become Rat lite and feed from the crumbs of the Rats table, or embrace a full throated conservatism. I believe we will be a minority party for at least 20 years, but if we do the latter we will at least have our self respect.

It is not the values of Christians that has brought this disaster on the USA but the lack of Christian values that brought us this godless govt centered society.

[JediJones]

The problem is much of this exit poll analysis is missing the fact that while there may be “gains” in percentages of certain groups, there were millions less voters that showed up. The numbers have to be crunched further to see if in raw totals more or less voters in a group turned out. Their percentage might have gone up but their actual numbers may still have gone down. Efforts to energize a segment of voters might have preserved their turnout even while overall turnout went down and helped decide the election. It seems that the Dems pulled that off with the whole gamut of racial minorities. Probably because the reason they voted in 2008 still exists exactly the same today...Obama is still a racial minority.