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1 posted on 09/18/2012 10:32:07 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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Where Have the Conservatives & Evangelicals Gone?

They were told they weren't wanted or needed by the GOP, so we went elsewhere.

/johnny

2 posted on 09/18/2012 10:35:19 AM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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i have a feeling based on the videos of the past 24hrs many of them will be returning...


4 posted on 09/18/2012 10:39:14 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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Anyone who votes according to the polls is an abject idiot, especially when the polls are instruments of propaganda.


5 posted on 09/18/2012 10:39:25 AM PDT by GingisK
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Elections 2012: Where Have the Conservatives & Evangelicals Gone?

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Here's a clue....

(Thanks Republican Party!) (/s)

6 posted on 09/18/2012 10:40:35 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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Just hanging out quietly biding our time until Election Day.

We really don’t need any of those Obama Brownshirts coming around to “get in our faces”.


7 posted on 09/18/2012 10:41:35 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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They’re letting “perfect be the enemy of good”

Since Romney doesn’t meet their exhalted standards for conservatism, they’ll stay at home rather than violate their “principles”, in essence passive aggressively voting for much worse: Obama.


8 posted on 09/18/2012 10:43:07 AM PDT by doc11355
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They are too busy buying canned food and stockpilling brass and lead....


12 posted on 09/18/2012 10:48:28 AM PDT by GraceG
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That is an excellent graph. And it underscores the fact that Evangelicals won the election for Bush in 2000 and 2004. No other demographic group was anywhere near instrumental in defeating Gore and Kerry as Christians.

What happened in 2008? What is happening now? Easy: Evangelicals were kicked to the curb. Us values voters were and are ignored.

But just don’t blames us when Obama is re-elected. Blame the GOP-e.


13 posted on 09/18/2012 10:48:51 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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While most conservatives and Evcangelical Christians are actually supporting Romney there are some who are so self righteous and sanctimonious that they refuse to support any one who's not as ideologically pure as themselves.

They're not convinced that Romney's sufficiently pro-life so they withold their support in order that the most radically pro abortion president ever gets re-elected.

Theyre not convinced that Romney is sufficiently conservative so they'll sit by and allow the re-election of the most radically liberal and anti-American President ever.

They're upset that Romney's a Mormon and not a Christian so they'll sit by and allow the re-election of a muslim who's aligned and allied with radical muslims who openly call for the destruction of this country.

14 posted on 09/18/2012 10:48:56 AM PDT by pgkdan (A vote for anyone but Romney is a vote for obama. GO MITT!!)
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waning support for Governor Romney from conservatives and evangelicals.
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conservatives and Christians dont support him much either...


16 posted on 09/18/2012 10:52:12 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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The GOP-e needs to remember the standard game plan of needing to attract voters on the fence has a second key element: getting the core of the base to come out and vote.

Otherwise they can find themselves gaining, for example, 0.5% in the middle, but losing 0.5% in turnout from the right.

The home runs are hit when the party preaches enough that people in the middle actually experience a change of heart.


17 posted on 09/18/2012 10:52:23 AM PDT by PieterCasparzen (We have to fix things ourselves.)
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Purely anecdotally, I am afraid they are going Libertarian.

Voting for a Mormon is just not sitting well, according to some friends at church and some strong Christians I know not part of my church, including some extended family.

I think R. Paul is an absolute disaster, but they believe he is a Christian. So, they support him.

I have tried to talk some out of it but don’t think I am making much headway.


22 posted on 09/18/2012 10:57:27 AM PDT by Persevero (Homeschooling for Excellence since 1992)
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Maybe they got tired of being treated as a statistic on some unprincipled political hack’s graph.


33 posted on 09/18/2012 11:04:51 AM PDT by EternalVigilance ("The opposite of compromise is character." -- Frederick Douglass)
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A. Notice how when Romney wasn’t doing much to attack Obama and defend himself that most Conservatives liked the dumb establishment Republicans defended him and made the case he was winning.

B. As soon as he does something good for a change and comes out swinging on Obama’s Foreign Policy and he is attacking the left. And is right about the fact that a lot of people have a government mentality. The establishment and rinos run to cover and start bashing him or saying he is doing bad and losing.

C. Thus establishment people are left wingers in sheeps clothing.


37 posted on 09/18/2012 11:10:32 AM PDT by Mozilla
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Where Have the Conservatives & Evangelicals Gone?

"Where, oh where has my lovely, wonderful Tina gone," a perplexed Ike Turner wondered.

43 posted on 09/18/2012 11:14:41 AM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle ("If you're not fiscally AND socially conservative, you're not conservative!" - Jim Robinson, 9-1-10)
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The main problem is, when you look at their history, you can’t tell the difference between Hussein and Romney... this is the same scenario that happened with McCain.

True conservatives simply aren’t going to “hold their nose” and vote for a liberal, even if that helps Hussein.


44 posted on 09/18/2012 11:15:28 AM PDT by TexasGunLover ("Either you're with us or you're with the terrorists."-- President George W. Bush)
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The Libertarians that really run the Republican Party are ashamed of conservatives.


51 posted on 09/18/2012 11:26:36 AM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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The irony is that the leaked video of Romney has done more to appeal to conservatives than anything this guy has said on the stump.


53 posted on 09/18/2012 11:32:28 AM PDT by FlipWilson
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OH, bless their little hearts. WE BE HERE, we have pencils sharpened and ready to VOTE....for the R & R's.

I'm riding my wheelchair to the polls, stoping to pick up a few more that need rides, (lol), nothing will stop us.

72 posted on 09/18/2012 12:31:43 PM PDT by annieokie (O)
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“Looking at the same numbers from current polling when compared to McCain in 2008 and Bush in 2004, it’s no longer a question, it is fact that conservatives and evangelicals are not turning out for Romney.”

No, that’s not a fact, since nobody has actually “turned out” yet, as we have not held the election. It seems like this analyst has stared at numbers for so long that he forgets they are only a projection of reality, and not reality itself.


85 posted on 09/18/2012 1:32:13 PM PDT by Boogieman
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