Obama LOST over 4,000,000: 2008=69,498,000 to 2012=64,005,000
from washingtontimes.com:
Posted on 09/27/2014 12:15:37 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
WASHINGTON — Gov. Mike Huckabee encouraged pastors to speak out on political issues and for social conservatives to get more fellow adherents registered and to the polls.
Social conservatives are not in trouble because of the actions of government, they are in trouble because social conservatives are not speaking out and are not voting in large numbers, Huckabee said Friday at the Family Research Council's Values Voter Summit.
Huckabee estimated that there are probably over 100 million social conservatives in the United States. Using just the example of Evangelicals, he said there are about 80 million, but only half of them are even registered to vote, and of those who are registered, only 20 million actually vote in a presidential year.
An even smaller number, about 10 million, vote in midterm elections and an even smaller number than that vote in the primary elections that determine who the major party candidates will be.
"What would happen," he asked, "if, instead of half of those voters being registered, 75 percent of them were? And what would happen if, instead of half of them voting, 75 percent of them voted? If 10 percent more Evangelicals had voted in the last presidential election, we would have a different president than the one we have right now."
Huckabee also cited research conducted by George Barna, a Christian pollster, showing that 90 percent of pastors believe that the Bible speaks to the important issues of the day, but only 10 percent of pastors say they preach and teach on what the Bible says about the important issues of the day.
Politicians will listen to the concerns of social conservatives if they speak out more and vote in higher numbers, Huckabee explained.
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Voting for whom? And in what states? And would they really have outnumbered those who were turned off?
I don’t know. I found out that some serious Church goers that I know voted for Obama. The term “Evangelical” really does not mean much in this day and age.
Well that is clear thinking!
Just in my own small circle, several people I know couldn’t vote for a Mormon. Evangelicals really don’t trust Mormons. The R’s should have realized they would lose because of this.
If the GOP doesn't produce a nominee WORTH voting for, the Dems will take the White House again.
The establishment needs to step back and allow a candidate of the people's choosing to become our standard bearer in 2016. Only then will we see someone emerge who can (and will) energize the conservative base to come out and bury the Dem candidate.
You want them to vote? Put up candidates who share their basic values and not RINO scumbags
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Exactly!
I think it’s clear that electoral politics is analogous to chess.
People need to have thicker skin or turn off the news.
Allowing one to be manipulated by psyop propaganda designed to scare off those that won’t think their vote will matter is complicit, imho.
I just don’t understand why the our side can’t get their crap together...
I am as unhappy as a person can be with the Republican establishment. We do not share the same values, and they mock me for my beliefs. With that said, as I look around the state of the world, I am much, much more unhappy with what is going on. I have little or no hope that Republicans would be that much of an improvement, but at the end of the day, they are all we have. I probably will hold my nose and vote for RINOs this fall, but I will work to increase the conservative voice. What else can we do within this time frame?
The GOPE could only see that Romney had lots of money to spend on his campaign...and Romney felt he could win because..... "foreordained man on white horse"
Unfortunately, it looks like he will again jump in, trash possible winners and several million mormons in the US will throw their votes away on him. Ann is dying to change the drapes in the WH.
2/3 of our state’s Democrat Party budget is now funded by homosexual action groups, so it is an easy choice which party to vote for here. Unfortunately, the Repubicans are pretty much extinct here, so it doesn’t really matter, those candidates chosen by the Democrat Party Central Committee are the ones that get in.
Romney = pro-choice, pro-sodomite, pro-amnesty. He did NOT earn my vote.
It would be nice if the GOP would stop smearing conservatives.
Come on,
Juan McLame?
MItt?
Bob Dull?
What next do they foist upon us, Jeb?
Huckabee?
Hell, With candidates like this crap we deserve to lose.
And Rubio, Go fish ya lying punk.
Good point. I’m expected to vote for Republicans who are want to vote for stuff like ENDA? Who won’t defend religious liberty. Who won’t promise to do every last thing they could to repeal Obamacare. Who can’t work out an immigration proposal that secures the border and protects the rights of American citizens first. I’m sure as hell never going to vote for Democrats but I’d prefer to have a party to vote for that at least makes an effort to represent me.
The Bible says that Satan is the god of this world. The Second Coming happens seven years after the start of the Tribulation and the Rapture happens just before the Tribulation. No one knows when that will happen, so Christians do not become lazy or lax about their duties and responsibilities.
AGREED!!! Mike Huckabee is right on. Thanks Evangelicals for not voting!! Hope you are PROUD of yourselves.
Gee, maybe it is time to give them a reason to vote then. Nah, that would take the stupid party being smart for a change.
Still, the establishment Repubs keep trying to foist candidates on us that we say openly, right up front, we won’t vote for.
Then complain because we didn’t vote for them.
We vote for people who reflect our beliefs. There are candidates, flawed though they might be, who share our beliefs. They’ll walk right past one of them to propose another McCain or Romney.
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