Romney didn't get up to McCain's numbers, so we have a 2 million vote gap.
The difference is readily explained by demographic change, death, disease, disability ~ etc. Someone forgot to register more Republicans and then encourage them to go vote for the Republican candidate. I think that's behavior not really of much interest to the GOP-e ~ they leave it to the locals ~ even if Romney had kicked sand in their faces ~ does not work well!
Evangelicals voted. Black Evangelicals voted for Obama. They were at least 10% of his vote ~ to wit, 6 million people.
White Evangelicals voted for Romney ~ probably in greater percentages than other groups ~ even Mormons.
Thanks for reinforcing my point which was to solve the mystery of the 6 million Evangelicals. Everybody seemed to assume they were white.
Black Evangelicals or Black Liberation Theologists?