Now RINOs -- including what Mark Levin calls "pseudoconservatives" -- those who railed vs. GoP "purists" on this and other venues...are trying to blame the Romney loss on Evangelicals.
#1 Per these polls: Evangelicals voted for Romney 79-20% [CNN exit polls says about the same thing -- 78-21%]; Mormons voted for Romney 78-21%...meaning Evangelicals supported Romney better than Mormons did!
#2 What about the turnout?...even if, as expected, Evangelicals didn't commonly vote for Obama...was the turnout suppressed?
Overall, no.
Per the Pew Forum: White evangelical Protestants constituted 24% of the 2012 electorate, compared with 23% in 2008 and 21% in 2004.
Now in terms of raw #s, I calculated this then at: almost 31 million white Evangelicals in 2012; about 30 million in 2008; and over 26 million in 2004.
So...what religious groups turned out less?
Per the Pew Forum: Roughly four-in-ten voters were white Protestants in 2012 (39%); by comparison, 42% of 2004 and 2008 voters were white Protestants, as were 45% of 2000 voters...One-quarter of 2012 voters were Catholics, including 18% who were white Catholics. By comparison, white Catholics constituted 21% of the electorate in 2000, 20% of voters in 2004 and 19% of the electorate in 2008.
So...in my rough estimates, it appears that non-Evangelical white Protestants dropped off about 4 million voters in turnout since 2008; and white Catholics, who supported Romney 59-40%, dropped off about 2 million voters in turnout.
Some of these were simply those who went to the grave -- and weren't "resurrected" by Dems -- and weren't replaced by young voters of the same Demographic.
'Twas Latino Catholics, btw, who were responsible for giving the overall Catholic vote to Obama (50-48% per CNN exit polls). Hispanics overall went 71-27% for Obama.
To see the graphs, go to the link accompanying the article.
So those of you who feel the need to take a crap on “evangelicals” for “losing” this election can be more accurate with your criticism.
One Mormon blogger thinks they found one: The Deep South...tho it effected NONE of the state outcomes for POTUS or electoral votes.
See the blue-red dot U.S. map at: The Impact of Mitt’s Mormonism: Bible Belt Blue
If you look @ the map posted there, you'll note a swath of blue running from Louisiana to the east all the way to North Carolina.
It seems particularly prominent in Mississippi, Alabama, and South Carolina.
Apparently -- at least the contention is made -- that in these states, there were a significant # of white Evangelicals who "stayed home."
The Lds poster concedes that it had no electoral college impact...given that "These are folks who knew their state was deep red, for the most part. So staying away from the polls wouldn’t change the outcome of the election."
Now, if it's true, then Evangelicals in other parts of the country more than made up for their absence since more voted in 2012 than either in 2008 or 2004.
So, I would say that if any claims want to be made about "stay at home" Evangelical voters, only the Deep South and Atlantic Coast (southeast) appears to show this evidence -- but not Florida.
And frankly, given that a LOT of pro-life conservatives wasted their votes on a pro-abort -- for the FIRST time in their lives -- maybe those Deep South voters were onto something!
RINO File.
RINO File.
Where do all of these statistics come from? You can’t get it from voter registration rolls. Is it just coming from exit polls?
Actually, I think right in the above is where I think all of that got started. The first thing I saw about it had total Evangelicals from 2008 compared to white Evangelicals from 2012 but didn't point that fact out. I don't know if it was deliberate, someone sloppy with the references, someone who didn't even notice the difference in the way the numbers are broken down, or someone who wants to help keep the divisions among Christians on the front burner.
I have neighbors who stayed home rather than vote for Romney which makes no sense at all to me. How many more folks are like that and what sort of group they place themselves in I don't know. I do know they said their pastor told them to not vote for Romney. How often they take the advice of their pastor and how often they're just lazy is something else I don't really know, but it's safe to say they must not have needed much encouragement to stay home.
Evangelicals being a greater percentage of a smaller number says to me turnout was flat rather than down among Evangelicals, not that it increased. I'll see what the difference is some time but it really doesn't matter. All the dividing Conservatives and especially Christian Conservatives against one another serves the democrat fascists and their guiding spirit quite well which is why it keeps on rolling along.
Three million people who call themselves Conservatives sat the election out. How many of them claim to be of which Christian or other group I don't know and don't care.
They put their personal pride ahead of the good of the nation, it's that simple.
8 out of 10 white Protestants voted for Romney...95% of black Protestants voted for Obama...
6 out of 10 White Catholics voted for Romney...75% of Mexican Catholics voted for Obama...
So.....
Protestants need to get to the Black Protestants that voted for Obama and
Catholics need to get to the Hispanics who voted for Obama.
Evangelize, people, evangelize! Give them the truth.
The Catholic percentage needs to be looked at to accomodate the growth in population.