Per PEW Forum -- http://www.pewforum.org/Politics-and-Elections/How-the-Faithful-Voted-2012-Preliminary-Exit-Poll-Analysis.aspx -- only 12% of the voting pool were religiously unaffiliated...

At over 120 million votes -- we'll probably wind up with 123-124 mil, that's over 9 million voters...But Obama got over 61 million -- and will probably wind up with 63 or more million when the counting's done.

So who were the religious voters that gave Obama well past 50 million votes????

OK, I recrunched the #s and saw that I was overemphasizing white non-evangelical mainline Protestant #s...Below are all round #s...and equal about 51.5 million...but it's over 52 million total...

Approximate votes going Obama's way from religious voters:

* Latino Catholics (5% of voting pool): Over 4.5 million votes
* White Catholics (18% of voting pool): By the time's all counted, perhaps 10 million votes
* Other Catholic (2% of voting pool): Over 1 million votes
TOTAL CATHOLIC CONTRIBUTION: Over 15.5 million votes

* Jewish (2% of voting pool) - Over 1.5 million votes

* Other non-Christian faiths (7% of voting pool): Over 5.5 million votes
* Lds (2% of voting pool): Almost half a million votes

* Black Protestant (9% of voting pool) - By time it's all been counted, over 11 million voters
* White Mainline Protestant (14% of voting pool) - About 8 million voters by time it's all been counted
* White Evangelicals (24% of voting pool, rounded off) - About 6 million voters once they've all been counted ... about 5.6 million of earlier 120 million vote count ... iow, the #s Rosenberg was using for his article...
* Latino Evangelicals (Little over 1% of voting pool) - Less than a million voters
* Other minority Christian or Protestant (4% of voting pool) (Guessing 2.5 million voters)
TOTAL PROTESTANT CONTRIBUTION: About 28.5 million

Now, Protestants are 51% of voting pool; Catholics are 25% of voting pool...so we would expect for every Catholic vote, there would be 2 Protestant votes...

Had Protestants voted for Obama the same rate as Catholics, the total above would be over 31 million -- not 28.5 million...

Religious minorities made the biggest difference % wise...
I estimate Obama got at least 26 million votes from religious minorities -- compared to perhaps less than 9 million for Romney...

White religious voters probably contributed close to 25 million votes to Obama...

What's "funny" in all of this...is that all the people that didn't want to talk about the religious make-up of the Mormon candidate suddenly want to talk about the religious make-up of certain voter segments!!!

(And here I thought "religion" was "out of bounds" to these posters!)