The evangelical vote in 2004 was 24% of 122.3M votes. In 2012, it was 26% of 128.8M total votes. Using the 79% figure, that works out to 23.2M evangelical votes for Bush vs 26.5M for Romney.
In a declining demographic, those numbers are very impressive.
Evangelicals did their duty like they always do, but that isn’t much for you to cling to, Romney was a disaster, and even against Jimmy Carter, he couldn’t win over new voters, or Catholics, or much of anything, much of his base didn’t vote for him.
In a complete reversal of 2008, when we were on the verge of depression, running against Carter II, and with millions of his 2008 voters refusing to vote for Obama , Romney only beat McCain’s vote totals, by 925 thousand.
Romney was a disaster.