Posted on 04/04/2012 11:32:40 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
The past year has generated one of the most unusual primary election campaigns in American history. The Republican frontrunner has shifted back and forth, with four candidates still in the race just four months before the party convention in Tampa. Meanwhile the incumbent president has faced no opposition from within his party and has spent his time preparing for what promises to be an intense, expensive, and acrimonious fall campaign.
The nationwide survey by Barna Group asked a sample of likely voters who they would vote for if the election were held today, evaluating the relative strength of the three leading Republican candidates against Mr. Obama.
Obama and Mitt Romney were of equal appeal to all voters, with Mr. Obama holding a 52% to 48% edge... However, the study found that a much greater share of Mr. Romney’s support was lukewarm...
In a match-up between Mr. Obama and Rick Santorum, the outcome was another draw (Santorum 51%, Obama 49%). Unlike the race with Mr. Romney, though, the incumbent president did not have an edge in the intensity of support when compared to the former Pennsylvania Senator....
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Perhaps the weakest Republican opposition to Mr. Obama at this point in the campaign season came from Newt Gingrich, who was outgunned by the President by a 55% to 45% margin. ...
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Evangelicals Dislike Obama, But Likely to Double Their Support for Him
Christian evangelicals represent about 7% of the adult population and 10% of the likely voter population.
In the 2008 election, a Barna Group election study found that evangelicals gave Mr. Obama just 11% of their votes... One of the most striking changes emerging from the new study is that Mr. Obama will receive double the support from the evangelical community he garnered four years ago (22%).
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(Excerpt) Read more at barna.org ...
Are they counting left-wing megachurches as Evangelical now? If your “Bible” is anything by Rick Warren, I can see where your critical thinking skills would be dulled enough to support Obama.
Your assessment seems spot on to me. What do they support? is a question I did not click on the article to find out.
Bullspit....a real Christian would never support this man.
“Looks bad.”
Right now, yes, but it’s seven months ‘til November and somehow I think a whole lot is going to happen that could change thing in seven months.
I imagine we’ll be seeing more of this redefinition. Just as academia, the media, and mainstream churches were infiltrated and co-opted, now evangelicalism will be with “social justice” and “green” agendas. The wheat and the chaff are still being sifted.
I find that hard to believe. But, consider this: 75 percent of the Black population is Baptist or some other Evangelical Denomination (like Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s Black Liberation Theology church.) So, that would explain it.
No true Christian could support this monster.
Sre you saying the polling company is a disreputable and invalid, therefore; the results are just not true?
Let’s just take the poll and assume it is valid data. It would not surprise me in the least that “Evangelicals” would vote 78% for Romney and 22% for Obama. Sounds about right.
What group of “Evangelicals” did they survey?
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Black Baptist
Yes, I don’t see “evangelicals” as we understand the term going near him with a ten-foot pole. They are diluting the meaning of “evangelical” in the same manner they did “Christian” and “Catholic”.
I’m pretty sure that pollsters don’t play detective and investigate actual documentable church membership. “Evangelical” would mean “self-described as Evangelical,” just as “Catholic” means “self-described as Catholic,” etc.
Oh you can go to the bank on that note! I expect to eventually see the true believers go underground as even now Christians are having difficulty finding a church that isn't already cowered to liberalism. Churches today are much 'Of the world' and justify it in their own minds.
My guess is they are adding in black churches. Many of them are evangelical, but they have doctrinal problems, combining a touch of black theology or marxism to their doctrine.
A lot of them are “name it claim it” which fits in with the culture and theology. I mean, money just drops from above.
DOn’t know how they define Evangelical but I doubt it....
is this more of the “they’ll vote for Hitler before they vote for a Mormon” theory?
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