...they failed to turn out their own base.Not true.
"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."
http://www.christianpost.com/news/survey-evangelical-voters-for-romney-overshadowed-by-youth-minorities-for-obama-84609/cpf
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The numbers back Ralph Reed. No one will argue that Bush failed to turn out the base in 2004. Yet, Romney got several million more evangelical votes than Bush. That this happened in a declining demographic is remarkable.
Yes about Evangelicals you are correct. My fears that a Rat stealth campaign within the Evangelical community that used the meme that voting for the follower of a ‘false prophet’ would put ones soul in danger of hellfire either wasn't tried or was a spectacular flop. Evangelicals are today the one group in the conservative/right correlation of forces that really are focused on the critical nature of social and political trends in our country. That they would overwhelmingly vote for a Mormon for President shows how disturbed or even fearful they are for the existence of the United States as a free country under a Constitution mandating individual liberties and limited government. This is a bellwether of trends moving beneath the surface in flyover country that the media and the elites ignore or scorn at their own risk.