Low turnout--evangelicals sat it out?

Powerline ^ | Nov. 8, 2012 | Steven Hayward

[MollyGoose]

I stand with you, annieokie.

I had to unfriend a few conservatives along with liberals on facebooger.

They were too “pure” to vote for Willard.

Well, good luck with that.

[Colofornian]

I find it incredulous that with 80% of the Evangelicals who voted voting for Romney, that someone would think that it’s a credible accusation to make against them that they sat out the election because they didn’t like his politics. Say what? It makes no sense.

It makes a LOT of sense to the RINO pseudoconservatives.

To them, RINOism is ne'er the problem; the problem is seemingly ALWAYS the Evangelical.

Freeper SaraJohnson said something along those lines in a post to me earlier today.

The RINOs blamed Palin, an Evangelical, in 08...

But now that Palin & McCain have been proven to have attracted more votes than Romney & Ryan, they have been vindicated before the RINOs.

The RINOs need an updated 2012 scapegoat; Evangelicals, kicked to the gutter at the beginning of this campaign, are easy targets.

[boatbums]

No, it isn't an "official" position just that some Catholics view Free Republic as their own little arm of the Vatican and they make sure to post as many threads as possible every day which is why it appears to be a "Catholic" website. You know, like the Daily mass schedule, the "saint of the day" thread, old provocative articles to criticize the "Protestants" to stir up arguments threads and what not. From what I remember, the Religion Forum was started so that discussions over current events that were religious in nature could be discussed without irritating those who have no interest in such discussions. There's nothing preventing non-Catholics from posting threads in RF, but I think we are a little more discriminating in how we use it.

[daniel1212]

Not to mention that it serves to divert attention from other religious groups who voted far less conservative now and in the past.

[boatbums]

I agree and if Mitt REALLY loves America like he says he does, then I hope he will be more than willing to work with Obama’s administration to share with them his grand plan to turn America around NOW and not hold back out of personal pique because he lost. If Obama really cares about turing this country’s economy around, he should be eager to hear and work with Romney, too. At least with Obama, we ony have four more years to worry about and we can start fresh NOW to get the Senate in 2014 and have a REAL winner in mind for 2016. I also hope and pray that the RINOs have learned their lesson finally that Conservatives are DONE with holding our noses to vote. NO MORE!!!

[Alex Murphy]

Per Pew Forum white Protestants dropped from 42% of the pie in 2008 to 39% in 2012...keep in mind, tho, that the mainline denominations are “aging” & unless a Dem “resurrects” a dead voter, they don’t vote from the grave...Still, 42% of about 132,654 (2008) vs. 39% of about 128 million is a drop-off of over 4 million voters!

Thank you, to whoever gets the credit for posting it first. This is exactly as I had expected - a progressive reduction in the Evangelical conservative voter base, one that's been going on since the late 80s. Conservative evangelicals didn't "sit this election out", but who's listening? It serves our liberal masters to isolate the single most reliable and predictable voter base that consistently opposes government tyranny, and to find a way to turn the general population against them.

White conservative church-going Evangelicals and Protestants supported Romney in greater percentages than practically any other voting demographic. Blaming evangelicals for Obama's win is like blaming Mini Cooper owners for taking up all the parking places at the mall.

[boatbums]

Very true! And, if there are debates, how about having CONSERVATIVE moderators for at least a few of them??? Having so many running this time was a huge waste of money, time, energy, resources and public good will. By the time a candidate was picked, there wasn’t enough time left to adequately “sell” him/her to the voting public. We definitely need to streamline the process next time - and I sincerely hope there IS a next time.

[annieokie]

I hate when that happens. Very distressing to the soul.

Thank you for standing with me, I will not budge nor will you I see. I will choose Freedom over Muslim Sharia Law anyday.

[daniel1212]

According to “How the Faithful Votes: 2012 Preliminary Analysis,” released Wednesday by the Pew Research Center, the percentage of white evangelicals voting in the presidential election bumped slightly upward, from 23 percent of all voters in 2008 to 24 percent in 2012. Of those, 79 percent voted for Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, while 20 percent said they voted for President Obama. That’s roughly equal to the number of evangelicals who said they voted for George W. Bush in 2004, but more than former Sen. John McCain received in his presidential bid in 2008 (73 percent).

The Faith and Freedom Coalition, an organization in Duluth, Ga., dedicated to educating and mobilizing people of faith to be effective citizens, had slightly different numbers: Its polling data 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/

[Salvation]

How many of these Black Protestants were evangelicals? We need to get to them!

8 out of 10 white Protestants voted for Romney...95% of black Protestants voted for Obama...

[Salvation]

6 out of 10 White Catholics voted for Romney...75% of Mexican Catholics voted for Obama...

We definitely have some educating to do with our fellow Hispanics.

[Salvation]

Thanks again.

“Catholic social ministry begins and ends with Jesus Christ,” he said. “If it doesn’t, it isn’t Catholic.” Archbishop Chaput

[Salvation]

What I have been wondering is how many Catholics or evangelicals or true-blue Protestants voted a third party because they could not vote for either liberal candidate.

Somehow the PEW poll isn’t showing that, is it?

[blueunicorn6]

Yep. And I think it’s because they are afraid and that drives me crazy.