Posted on 02/20/2016 10:43:13 PM PST by springwater13
72 percent.
That's the number of Republican voters in South Carolina's primary that identified as evangelical or born-again Christians, according to exit polling. That's an eye-popping, record-shattering figure: It was 65 percent in South Carolina's 2012 GOP primary, and 60 percent in 2008.
With three-quarters of the electorate identifying as evangelical, it was shaping up as a great night for Ted Cruz, who launched his campaign at Liberty University and has boasted of building a "firewall" to dominate the March 1 southern states because of their ultra-conservative, religious composition. South Carolina represented the first test of that theory.
Cruz failed. Among South Carolina's evangelical Republican voters, Trump won 33 percent, Cruz won 27 percent, and Rubio won 22 percent. And while Cruz did carry the 38 percent of "very conservative" voters in the state, it wasn't enough to finish anywhere close to Trump. Nor was it enough to beat Rubio, whom he finished roughly 1,000 votes behind.
This spells trouble for Cruz on Super Tuesday. He remains better-organized than any other candidate across the south (which should make a difference, considering both Trump and Rubio benefited from having impressive field operations in South Carolina). But there's no question Cruz's inability to carry the evangelical vote here portends poorly for him in states of similar ideological and demographic makeup.
That's a big problem for Cruz on March 1. But he faces even bigger challenges beyond then. Both Trump and Rubio performed evenly with non-evangelicals in South Carolina: Trump took 30 percent, and Rubio took 22 percent. But Cruz saw a significant drop-off, winning just 13 percent of that group. This echoes Cruz's performance in Iowa (33 percent with evangelicals, 19 percent with non-evangelicals) and New Hampshire (24 percent with evangelicals, 8 percent with non-evangelicals).
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Some of these fundamentalists have a thing against Catholics particularly the Pope. That story the MSM cojured up about the pope singling out Trump being a non christian may have turned this within that group.
But the pope never mentioned his name in his lengthy if actually one said, does, did, such and such response to a rather lenghty question by a so called reporter. As it was meant to be a generalized position applied to anyone who has those views.
If they voted that way because of that reason they were missled by the media not the pope
How silly. IF Democrats did vote, and no one knows how many that would have been -it makes just as much sense that they would vote for one of the establishment candidates. Your theory is pure crapola.
1- He’s Ted Cruz
2- He’s not Donald Trump
Trump doesn’t believe in the Constitution, alright, hello Kelo. As for the economy, remember Donald Trump praising Barack Obama and his trillion dollar stimulus package or supporting bailouts. The businessman that presided over huge failures like Trump Shuttle, Trump Mortgage, GoTrump.com travel and of course his Atlantic City crash.
I suspect most Cruz voters are sane enough to realize the stakes at hand and would choose Trump over the alternatives (Rubio, Hillary). Trump at least has the right attitude towards some of the pressing issues of our time (immigration, trade, etc.) and is likely to act decisively on them.
A roof over your head doesn’t mean much in a city if an EMP hits.
All of the candidates should be insisting that we mend the hole in our southern radar defense, now that North Korea and Iran have an EMP (or super EMP) capable bomb and have put at least one satellite into orbit apiece at the precise altitude and orbit to exploit that hole with an EMP attack.
Obama said in July of 2008 that he would be POTUS for “the next 8 to 10 years” - which would only happen if some catastrophe so big that it makes elections/inauguration impossible occurs at the end of his 2nd term. Obama’s been working for 7 years to get us this vulnerable, has said that Trump WILL NOT be POTUS (obviously, since Obama told us in 2008 that HE would be POTUS in 2017...), and plans to be in Cuba, Venezuela, and other communist South American countries “celebrating his accomplishments” in November and December this year. I think the plan has always been to have a North Korean and/or Iranian EMP hit, to keep any new POTUS from being elected and/or inaugurated, and then for the Islamist sleeper cells to take over the state capitols and then DC within the 2-year timeframe that Obama mentioned.
On to Nevada and March 1st. Looks to be the same results.
Welcome to Free Republic.
You said the same thing I’ve been saying. He was using the Lord for his personal gain - not to win souls, and this is probably a big part of why Evangelicals didn’t vote for him. They saw through his tactics.
This is 2016. Old patterns don’t apply but Super Tuesday will settle matters.
Oh my, Ben said no such thing. And, yes, bearing false witness is a sin - and you just committed it.
Yep. Reagan first ran for President in 1968, but did not do well in the early primaries and withdrew early and endorsed eventual winner Richard Nixon in 1968.
In 1976, battled incumbent Gerald Ford all the way to the convention and forced a brokered convention - neither winning the majority of delegates to secure the nomination. Eventually lost to the incumbent President Ford on the second ballot of the 1976 Republican Convention.
The third time was the charm - finally secured both the GOP nomination and the Presidency in 1980 at the young age of 69 after a vicious, hard fought primary campaign against George H.W. Bush!!!
Or maybe evangelicals want to make America great again too.
You may be right. FR has a lot of trolls.
Ben Carson has played exactly the role that the GOPe wanted him to play.
I bet they did. This was Thad Cochran all over again.
Silliness. Would a President not have the same issue if their grandparents or cousins or other relatives were in a foreign country?
I’ve got a dozen vidoes of Cruz flip flopping on issues too, so what’s your point? Do you seriously think the hot issues of this campaign are abortion and socialized medicine? Do you? Well, here’s a news flash for you - they aren’t. Trump has already said he is going to repeal obamacare. What more do you need? What part of that don’t you understand?
Very well good be.
Again, that’s why we have elections.
Tons of states? There are only 50 at last count.
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