Baloney! What is wrong with you? I twisted NO numbers. You don't like the fact that 23% of the people who answered the Exit Poll questions, identified themselves as members of the Religious Right. Well, too bad!
>>>>your own linked showed that they voted in no higher numbers than any other demographic group.
Open your eyes for once. The Religious Right as a voting block accounted for 23% of all voters in this last election. As an example, "Latinos" made up a mere 8%. You need to take a class in basic statistics.
>>>>I provided you with what has been posted online and on this forum ....
You provided NO data, NO info, NO nothing to back up your assertions. OTOH. You have provided a lot of empty rhetoric.
Where did I say that? You're the only going off the deep end here; I merely pointed out that that 23 perecent if inclueded in the VOTE BY RELIGION cateogry; it's a SUBCATEOGY. You need to admit that that 23 percent is NOT a separate group of people voting for Bush.
I provided you with a link to an article that published what the Pew Research Center said.
And I suggest you do a search on Krauthammer; you'll be REAlLY surprised.
Plus, around 77% of those who identified themselves as "white evangelical born again" supported the Republicans. I believe the percentage of Hispanics was closer to something like 35%.
A sizeable voting block that supported a winning party by almost 80% certainly should have some "clout" with the party. And most certainly much more clout than a voting block consisting of 8% of the voters of which only around a third of them support the winning party.
Seems like the message we're hearing from some on this thread is, "Don't call us, we'll call you -- in about three and a half years." Evangelical "Born-agains" as well as other Christians and Social Conservatives have just as much right to voice their concerns and opinions as anyone else. And they have the right to exercise their political clout as well.