In light of the fact that Obama absolutely trounced Alan Keyes with 70% of the vote compared to Keyes laughable 27%, your statement borders on the absurd.
Considering what a disaster the IL GOP is in - Keyes is lucky he got 27% of the vote. Maybe had he actually been from IL the result might have been a bit different; however IL is a liberal state. Furthermore, Keyes has never held an elected office; whereas BHO was a state Senator. That type of thing holds a lot of weight for people.
I should have clarified my statement-however I thought it was clear that we were talking about Evangelicals-so I didn't believe that it needed to be stated in my response.
Evangelicals/conservative Catholics usually vote for pro-life candidates - some of them overlook party to vote for pro-life candidates...Pro-life Dem is better than a pro-choice Republican....even if the Republican represents a lot more of your values than the pro-life dem would....
So, for this group, the pro-lifer IS going to win over the pro-choicer-especially if they are a single-issue voter - which a significant portion of evagelicals are on the issue of abortion.
Making the assumption that the pro-lifer would automatically win against a pro-choicer outside of evangelical circles is absurd because we know that relatively conservative areas will elect pro-abort candidates. My state just re-elected our pro-abort gov and MI isn't nearly as liberal as NY.