Posted on 11/08/2012 4:55:02 AM PST by jmaroneps37
From Allahpundit at Hotair.com:
“One question I’m seeing in the comments is, “Did evangelicals turn out for Romney”? Yep, looks that way. Turnout among Protestants generally dropped slightly from 2008 (54% to 53%) but Romney’s share of the vote increased from 54% to 57%. Among white evangelicals specifically, turnout was steady at 26% of the electorate from four years ago and Romney took 78% of the vote compared to just 74% for McCain. If you’d rather slice the data by how often people go to church, the number who attend at least weekly rose from 39% in 2008 to 42% this time. McCain won 55% of that group. Romney won 59%. He improved on McCain’s numbers among Jewish voters too, from 21% of the vote in 2008 to 30% this time (or maybe more), the highest take for a Republican since 1988. If there’s any religious group that underperformed for him, it’s Catholics. He did improve on McCain’s numbers — from 45% to 48% — but O still won a majority despite the abortion-rights jamboree at the convention and the contraception mandate. Catholic turnout was down two points this time, however.”
http://hotair.com/archives/2012/11/07/looking-at-the-national-exit-poll/
I don’t know where this data is coming from or how accurate it is. Call me skeptical on this. But I also would not be surprised if it is true. Christians are much more concerned with the next life than this world. They already think this world is a realm of misery ruled by Satan. For any that did stay home because he is a Mormon I say may you be damned!
It’s all about the stats, and they can be made to say anything that you want them to say!
Question is why are good people so stupid?
I am sure there were evangelicals that were put off by Mitt’s Mormonism and didn’t vote for him, but I believe that MOST did vote for Romney. Christians know what is at stake with a second 0 term. Most of us know that Zero is pure evil, hates Israel, and needed to be removed. I expect that the figures of evangelicals voting FOR him will be much higher than the percentage that stayed home or didn’t vote the top of the ticket.
Once again, someone is looking for a scapegoat. Could it be that some people just couldn’t stomach Romney, himself? I didn’t vote FOR him, but AGAINST Zero. I didn’t like Romney as a candidate, and after his scorched earth tactics during the primary—which incidentally he DIDN'T use on Zero—made me view him with disgust. I wasn’t going to vote for him at all; it was Benghazi that really got me off the fence. In the end I did vote for him, but I wasn’t thrilled about it.
Calm down! This supposed slaughter comes in the form of about 2.8 million votes out of 118 million. 58 million people agree with us, mostly. We’re not dead yet.
And, if Evangelicals really did stay home...forget them. If they want to cut off their nose to spite their face and allow the free-wheeling abortionist to appoint more Supreme Court justices, they’ll have God to answer to at some point. As in “So what did you do when I gave you the chance to move the Court to 6-3 or 7-2 conservative?” Evangelical: “Uh, I stayed home because Romney was a false Christian.” (keeping the death mills going in almost every state)
“It’s those evil, principled, evangelicals - if they would just compromise their beliefs a little, “
They will be passively complicit when Obama flips the Supreme Court and issues like gay marriage are forced upon all states through the 14th Amendment and the gun case “Heller” which said the the right to bear arms is an individual’s by a 5-4 ruling is overturned. Enjoy that.
“The fact that Valerie Jarrett was confidently telling her people that they were going to win and then it would be payback time, even when the polls were saying otherwise, suggests foreknowledge of the final vote tally. “
Bull! Jarrett is a hack. She is always going to paint a prideful rosy picture.
Face it, the polls were right. They forecasted an Obama victory for 2 weeks prior to election and for most of the year. Romney’s momentum stalled before Sandy, even. The problem was that he got no national facetime in the last 2 weeks like he did with the debates.
All we know is that a bunch of McCain’s voters stayed home.
Everyone I know voted, except for two or three people.
Beyond the fact that McCain got more votes, I don’t think we yet know anything.
“It’s all about the stats, and they can be made to say anything that you want them to say!”
Only in the analysis of stats.
If Evangelical numbers are down...they are down. That’s not an indictment on Evangelicals, just those who stayed home.
I do not care what religion my candidate is, providing he is a moral man. Mitt Romney was and is a moral man. If the data about Evangelicals is correct, they have shot themselves in the foot along with my foot and the rest of the Republican party. This also means Herman Cain, Mike Huckaby or Rick Santorum could have easily won.
They do not call us the stupid party for no reason.
I know many conservatives and or Evangelicals stayed home or voted for a candidate other than Romney or Obama, it is hard for me to understand their thinking. By the same token Romney has to look in the mirror on that one because early on he decided he didn’t need Evangelicals or conservatives to win and shut both out. You just can’t throw groups under the bus and still expect their votes.
I am a Bible believing Christian and I personally know hundreds of evangelical Christians - every one of whom couldn’t wait to get to the polls and vote for Romney. Maybe the sector of evangelical Christianity that I am personally involved with is more politically astute than the rest of evangelical Americans - but I doubt it. I don’t believe these so called statistics.
So in essence Sarah, Santorum, Gingrich, Perry , or anyone else would have picked up millions of votes that Romney failed to get? That would be enough to beat a President who lost 10 million voters from ahis previous campaign.
So explain to us again how Conservatism is dead?
Stupid GOPe
I was never a Romney supporter, and IIRC pro-Romney types were being banned from FR simply for being pro-Romney during the primaries because he's not conservative.
During the campaign, I have to say he won me over part of the way. I considered that it was possible that he was more conservative than his record indicated because his record was compiled in Mass, where Scott Brown is a radical right-winger and Fauxcahontas in mainstream. He did what he had to do to win. I can't say I ever trusted him, but I was willing to give him a shot.
In the end, I was like Mr. Wilson:
I couldn't really vote FOR, but I could damned sure vote AGAINST. And I did so, with enthusiasm.
Blaming the Evangelicals for this loss is a HUGE load of crap. I live in the Bible Belt Buckle and land of large mega Evangelical church’s. I do NOT know of a single person that stayed home rather than vote for Romney. I think that Coach Kevin is just looking for a scapegoat. Well, I won’t let him.
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Dittoes. But as an Evangelical myself, I must admit to being flattered with the blame this article is dumping on us.
But the simple truth of the matter is this: Ignore Evangelicals at you own risk. What put Bush on top over Gore, then Kerry? It’s wasn’t Soccer Moms or NASCAR Dads or any other demographic group. It was Evangelicals.
And because the GOP kicked us to the curb in ‘08 and ‘12, they lost. Blame Evangelicals? Hah! Blame the party responsible for ignoring the real key issues that face our nation.
Sure, Evangelicals are concerned about the deficit, the economy and unemployment. But unless and untill we have a man who is not afraid to speak out on critical social issues as well as economic issues, we are just spitting in the wind.
Won’t work you say? Why not? Obama and the democrats are PROUD to run on free contraception issues, pro-abortion issues, gay marriages and on and on and on.
According to this, Evangelicals voted for Romney the same as they did for Bush in 2004. 78-21%.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2956981/posts
That won't work even if it works. If we have to embrace principles of Fiscal/Social/Legal insanity to win, what is the point? The reckoning will be the same in the end. We will collapse. (A Foregone conclusion at this point, I think.)
Not that it mattered in Missouri (as it went Romney), but I do know several evangelicals who probably didn't vote for Romney.
We are always told to vote our values. Evangelicals who didn't vote for Romney did so because of their values. They couldn't bring themselves to vote for a cultist. Yes, Obama may act (and who knows, even believe) like he's a God, but Mormonism teaches that one can become a God if they live the Mormon faith. Evangelicals believe that there is only ONE God, and Man can not become a God. I fully support that view. I hold nothing against any evangelical who didn't vote for Obama. Mormonism is “anti-Christ” at its’ core.
Sure, there are a lot of good people (by earthly standards) that are Mormons, but there is a good movie called Time Changer, where one of the cast says (I paraphrase) “Satan doesn't care if you do good things and live a good life, Satan just doesn't want Jesus to get the credit”.
Mormonism points one to a different Christ, a false Christ. Many evangelicals couldn't pull the lever for this. I consider myself an evangelical. Can't blame them. There are many things people will compromise on. They chose to stand on the promises of God. I didn't decide to vote for Romney until the day before the election, and only because my sister pointed out that as a nation we will go down if we are not on God's side. Obama's track record with Israel made me finally decide to vote Romney.
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