What I can’t write off is there are 7% to 10% of the electorate who describe themselves as either Tea Partiers or Evangelical Christians that are supporting Barack Obama in these five critical states. This is the empirical part of questioning the lack of support from ultra-conservatives within the Republican Party.
Based on "polls conducted in Colorado, Florida, New Hampshire, Ohio and Virginia within the last ten days." All bulwarks of conservatism, let me tell you!
I’m not surprised at this. At least 10% of the members of this forum have said that they will not support Romney no matter what. They will either vote Obama or not vote at all, a distinction without much of a difference.
A lot of African-Americans are devout evangelical Christians...
So they're abandoning Romney and somehow find Obama more appealing. How anyone could consider themselves "tea party," yet kneel at the feet of Obama doesn't make sense. But then... very little of what's happening in this country makes sense anymore.
About that evangelical Christian number... how many of those people are "christians" of the Jim Wallis mode? That's a huge factor.
I don’t care about polls or vote by polls. No one else should either. Not 50 days out. Bo gotta go!
If they poll people like me then the numbers make sense. I will often give conflicting demographic data to screw with the numbers.
I’m going to vote for Obama. Just last week I told the girl on the phone that I always vote democrat and can’t wait to vote twice for Obama on election day.
Just because a person may not be supporting Romney does not mean in anyway they are supporting obama, except in the minds of some people.
Evangelicals don’t always vote conservative. In fact I know several who are MORE concerned with “social justice” than any other issue.
As for Tea Partiers- look around this site- lots of freepers can’t/won’t vote for Romney- no matter what.
Also- there is always a possibility that some libs are lying to pollsters..
Many blacks and some Hispanics can be described as evangelicals or charismatics, could that explain those numbers?
People are screwing with the pollsters. Thats all.
Any ‘conservative’ that would vote for this socialist is a filthy traitor who should be lined up in front of a firing squad.
Sorry. I just cannot believe that many people would EVER vote for Jokebama
Are conservatives abandoning Romney?
Why would they vote for a Pubbie who is an admitted Progressive (aka Liberal, collectivist, Leftist, etc.)?
When it’s Progressive(R) vs. Progressive(D) I’ll be voting for Sarah.
This is nuts!
It doesn’t matter how much you hate Mormons, or Romney’s “conservative” credentials.
You don’t qualify as “Tea Party” or “Evangelical” if you’re voting for Obama.
I’m not convinced that this is true.
I’ve seen several here who said they would rather have Obama with a Republican House and Senate than Romney and who repeat over and over the quote about the ‘devil you know’.
I still dont know what an Evangelical is suppose to be...
I was discussing this new term with some other Christians this morning...
They asked me why they keep seeing “Evangelical” but not “Christian” or Protestant”
But as a Christian and a Conservative I wont be voting for Willard...
This is the MSM’s effort to get people thinking that O will surely win. Then when it doesn’t happen (like Gore and Kerry) there will be outrage etc etc etc
Anyone who votes for Obama is not a conservative. The only way a genuine conservative could vote for Obama is if they have some twisted view that reelecting Obama would somehow usher in a true conservative President in 2016.
We always see these polls showing many more people self-identify as conservative than liberal. Considering how the last 5 presidential elections have gone, we have to consider the possibility that either many of these self-described conservatives are not really conservative, or a solid majority of self-described moderates are in fact liberals.
bttt