Would someone please tell me why these same Evangelicals didn't support GWB in 2000? The gay marriage issue was more powerful than the reason to beat Al Gore.
Don't know if that is true or not, but keep in mind this article cites percentages without raw numbers.
Because of the late breaking DUI story.
BTW, the numbers do NOT work for the evangelicals; the last numbers showed that the evangelicals turned out in the same numbers are before:
Here are the facts. As Andrew Kohut of the Pew Research Center points out, there was no disproportionate surge in the evangelical vote this year. Evangelicals made up the same share of the electorate this year as they did in 2000. There was no increase in the percentage of voters who are pro-life. Sixteen percent of voters said abortions should be illegal in all circumstances. There was no increase in the percentage of voters who say they pray daily.
It's true that Bush did get a few more evangelicals to vote Republican, but Kohut, whose final poll nailed the election result dead-on, reminds us that public opinion on gay issues over all has been moving leftward over the years. Majorities oppose gay marriage, but in the exit polls Tuesday, 25 percent of the voters supported gay marriage and 35 percent of voters supported civil unions. There is a big middle on gay rights issues, as there is on most social issues.