Survey: Evangelical Voters for Romney Overshadowed by Youth, Minorities for Obama

The Christian Post ^ | November 8, 2012 | Alex Murashko

[HokieMom]

Evangelical Christian voters turned out in record numbers according to a national post-election survey done by the Faith and Freedom Coalition. However, despite a 78 to 21 percent split in favor of Mitt Romney among white evangelicals, the coalition's leader implied that Barack Obama's win was catapulted by votes from youths and minorities.

"Evangelicals turned out in record numbers and voted as heavily for Mitt Romney yesterday as they did for George W. Bush in 2004," said Ralph Reed, chairman of Faith and Freedom Coalition. "That is an astonishing outcome that few would have predicted even a few months ago. But Romney underperformed with younger voters and minorities and that in the end made the difference for Obama."

[HokieMom]

Related article:

Exit Polls: Obama Gains With Latinos, Romney Gains With Evangelicals

Read more at http://www.christianpost.com/news/exit-polls-obama-gains-with-latinos-romney-gains-with-evangelicals-84574/#eTzf0QwPTpFcgaBO.99

[Shelayne]

Thanks for posting that. It is exactly how I figured, but there is a bunch of nonsense out there about how Christians refused to vote for a Mormon, so it is all their fault Romney lost. I figured that was bunk.

[Former Fetus]

Very interesting reading:

25 million self-described “evangelicals” voted for Obama

[Westbrook]

We are simply outnumbered by ...

* The gimme cult
* The race cult
* The vagina cult
* The sodom cult
* The drug cult
* The entertainment cult
* The cult of Marx
* The democrat cult

It’s a formidable coalition that seems to be growing every day.

[Patriot Babe]

Well the morons youth & minorities went for ODumbo he got the college students to go out and vote in droves, but they will not have jobs when they graduate, and I hope their parents will not take them in, as they thumb their noses at their parents, take their money, allow them to pay outrageous tuition fees to go to godless colleges where they are brainwashed, and then they think they can take even more advantage of their soft-hearted moms and dads!!! It makes me sick!!!

[Shelayne]

Sad, but true. :^(

[HokieMom]

If you’re on facebook, I suggest ‘liking’ the Christian Post for some very insightful reporting from the Evangelical community.

[WalterSkinner]

..that sums it up—no other analysis is necessary...

[ckilmer]

This cannot be true because Romney got 2 million votes less than mccain did.

[MeOnTheBeach]

Wonder where we got that idea?

This may have something to do with that assessment.

[bramps]

Well the fact is that Romney got less votes than McCain. Where did those votes go? Not to Obama. Spin it however you want but I'd bet they turned out in 2008 because of the genuine Evangelical conservative on the ticket named Sarah Palin.

[Hawthorn]

You seem to have forgotten about the Environmental wacko cult.

[Westbrook]

> You seem to have forgotten about the Environmental wacko cult.

Indeed! Forgive the omission, and please include them in the list.

Also forgot the labor union cult. It’s covered by the cult of Marx, but it’s big enough to warrant specific categorization.

[bramps]

The important question is why did Romney get less votes than McCain. Romney would’ve won if he just got the same votes as McCain. Where did those votes go?

[God luvs America]

post #89:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2956615/posts?page=89#89

[God luvs America]

how are we outnumbered??? if Romney got the same number of votes as GWB in ‘04 then yes, i agree with you...but ayatollah obama didn’t even pull in that many votes..

[Will88]

Not sure why it makes any sense to compare the evangelical vote to the youth and minority vote combined. Some are definitely obsessed with voting blocs.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Some of McCain’s former voters are deceased, however there supposedly were 10-15 percent of Barack’s former fans who turned sour on him and that should have at least equaled the dead GOP voters (unlike Democrats, they don’t keep voting from the hereafter).

We eventually warmed up to Mitt here, but ennui continued to reign where it counted.

[tcrlaf]

Nationally just doesn’t matter. It was in the KEY STATES that the turnout counted.

Republicans turned out BETTER on Ohio in 2012, than in 2008, by at least 85,000.

Dem turnout was down 15,000.

It’s not that Repubs didn’t show up in the key states, it’s that the Dems ground game was far better, despite the Romney Campaign’s historic ground game.

USING SOCIAL MEDIA, they were able to round up enough voters to win, in the key ohio counties, in the last few hours.

I can tell you for a FACT that the Romney Campaign thought they had this thing WON about 3PM, based on historic R turnouts, in Ohio.

[Will88]

25 million self-described “evangelicals” voted for Obama

The bad link says 6 million. It's definitely not 25 million and I doubt it's six million. The environmental evangelicals is probably a pretty small group.

[Shelayne]

Yes, I know. But I imagine those numbers are dwarfed by those that DID vote for Romney. You could pull that kind of stat with ANY group.

[almcbean]

Rosenberg has made a correction-it’s 6.4 million, not 25 million.

[huckfillary]

All we kept hearing throughout the campaign was that youth were not going to turn out for Obama because they had become so disillusioned with him. Yeah, right-—another one of Rove’s brilliant voter turnout assumptions.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I think to a degree we were sandbagged.

I picked up NO discernable passion for Obama anwhere out there. Hardly any yard signs even. Obviously in hindsight a deliberate tactic to stay under the radar.

Evidently they have their own closed communication pipeline into minorities and yutes using Twitter or somesuch. I became suspicious when my daughter kept coming home from college asking me “did you hear Obama is going to forgive all our student loans?” Evidently they had a way to circulate that rumor on college campi away from my daily travels.

If he managed to get all their votes anyway without giving them that, either they are dumber or he’s an even bigger charlatan than I suspected.

[nevermorelenore]

still think only those who pay income taxes should be allowed to vote.

[WalterSkinner]

..you have a point, but Romney should have won in a blowout

It doesn't boil down to just numbers IMHO. The kind of numbers is what astonishes me. That there are so many , the majority it seems, who are willing to set a match to everything this country stands for, for some short-termed benefit.

You and others do make a good point though about the turnout. The warnings of many, me included, that the GOP Establishment would ruin this election by sending out another moderate-liberal to fight turned out to be true. And maybe the lower turnout is because some folks will never vote for a liberal or a Mormon or a liberal Mormon...

[butterdezillion]

How do we know that the votes of the evangelicals that say they turned out in record numbers were not changed to the votes of the few young people and abortion-supporters who showed up? The polling before-hand showed an enthusiasm gap that supports the evangelicals’ claim. The polls that expected an Obama win were based on an even bigger democrat-advantage enthusiasm gap than Obama got in ‘08, even though the polls said the youth were disillusioned and unenthusiastic. So now the results come in and they contradict what the pollsters had heard before the election and what the evangelicals are claiming about turnout now.

Somebody is lying. Who is more likely to lie - the communist-Islamist media cabal and current administration (considering that both communists and Islamists openly admit that lying is their strategy because the end justifies the means), or the evangelicals who, if they stayed home in protest of the candidate, would actually BOAST of having cost Romney the election, so that the R establishment would hear the very message they were trying to send?

Think about it.

[RedMonqey]

either they are dumber or he’s an even bigger charlatan than I suspected.

Our students are dumber AND naive...

[Buckeye McFrog]

Our students are dumber AND naive...

Case in point....my colleague's twenty-something son.

Though his dad is quite Conservative, this kid is incredibly ambivalent on just about any issue of substance. Though he graduated two years ago, he lives with his sister as a live-in babysitter and has only a part-time job.

Despite this circumstance, he wasted his vote on Gary Johnson. And the biggest news to come out of the election in his view was the two states who approved recreational pot use.

If his attitudes are typical of his generation we are DOOOOOOMED.

[BonRad]

you’ve got a 404 error linked- please bring it up and inform me thanks

[Former Fetus]

CORRECTED BLOG ENTRY

It was not a bad link, but the original entry has been removed and replaced with a corrected one.

[Rashputin]

If you're going to focus on what religion or denomination people are and how that influences their vote, then it's inaccurate to not include black Evangelicals in the total of Evangelicals. I see a lot of numbers that have Evangelicals listed and Blacks listed separately, but doing that doesn't actually prove a thing about how my Evangelicals rely on their faith when they vote.

Does anyone have numbers that include ALL the people who claim to be Evangelicals rather than numbers that do not include Black and Hispanic Evangelicals?

[Wuli]

amalytical translations - go “Evagelicals”, get out there and be MORE evangelical among “the youth and minorities” so YOU bring more of them with you the next time we all get together

[Responsibility2nd]

Very interesting stats.....

The Church Re Elected President Obama
reenysrambles.com ^ | 11/08/2012 | n/a
 

Posted on Thursday, November 08, 2012 11:43:33 AM by massmike

Yes, you read that title correctly.

In total Obama received more support from religious groups than did Romney, but there are some rather surprising totals in the individual listings. First of all, you have the Catholic vote. As we all know there was a huge issue this year when the Supreme Court ruled on ObamaCare because of the mandate that violated the religious freedom of the Catholic Church. It is against the Catholic teaching to use contraceptives or have an abortion, and within this bill is a mandate forcing Catholic institutions to provide contraceptives and abortificient drugs, within their insurance, to their employees. This was a huge deal, AND YET 50% of the Catholic vote went to him?

 

 

 

[Alex Murphy]

Evangelical Christian voters turned out in record numbers according to a national post-election survey done by the Faith and Freedom Coalition....a 78 to 21 percent split in favor of Mitt Romney among white evangelicals....

Post-election, the propaganda machine is working overtime on payback:
Evangelicals plunge America into darkness – mislead polls and stay home on Election Day
The Church Re Elected President Obama

[Crimson Elephant]

I just noticed Bush won a higher % of Mormons than even Romney did.

[Responsibility2nd]

And Romney didn’t win his home state. And Ryan didn’t win his home state either.

Crazy, huh?

[RedMonqey]

If his attitudes are typical of his generation we are DOOOOOOMED.

More insidious than pot(which is bad enough) what has damaged the work ethic of this generation is the VIDEO GAME!

IF my nephew and his friends are any indication, more kids spend more time wasting away playing video games instead of studying.

Back in the Fifties Sen.Estes Kehoeffer(sp?) held senate hearings on the "terrible" effects of comic books on children. His head would explode if he knew about the time kids and yes, adults waste on these fun but ultimately useless time-killers.(No, I'm not against video games just their overuse)