I hated Romney in the primaries, but voted for him with enthusiasm.
Yet I wonder if there weren’t some evangelicals who had little enthusiasm for the choice between the Mormon and the Moron, and stayed home.
78% of white evangelecals voted for Romney. Name me any other demographic group that matched that.
You can’t blame white evangelicals.
“I hated Romney in the primaries, but voted for him with enthusiasm.
Yet I wonder if there weren’t some evangelicals who had little enthusiasm for the choice between the Mormon and the Moron, and stayed home.”
This is exactly where I was — despised Romney in the primaries, but I really grew to like and admire him, and had no problem whatsoever voting for him. I had thought that the evolution of my views was common among other Christian conservatives, but I guess I was wrong.
And I do believe the Mormon thing had a lot to do with so many Evangelicals staying home. How else can we explain him getting 2 million LESS votes than McCain. The McCain campaign barely had a pulse until Sarah Palin, and McCain did absolutely ZERO outreach to Evangelicals, yet it seems that more of them voted for McCain.
I know 90% of the reason they voted for him had to be Sarah Palin, but could she alone have accounted for getting that many million more votes? Could be, but I have to think the Mormon issue was the primary driver in depressing turnout.