Posted on 11/08/2012 11:29:45 AM PST by fifedom
Romney may underperform (or barely match) in turnout the listless McCain in 2008. According to exit polls Romney won white evangelicals by a four-to-one marginas high or higher than George W. Bush in 2004. Could it have been that many evangelicals couldnt bring themselves to vote for a Mormon, and simply stayed home?
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I stand with you, annieokie.
I had to unfriend a few conservatives along with liberals on facebooger.
They were too “pure” to vote for Willard.
Well, good luck with that.
It makes a LOT of sense to the RINO pseudoconservatives.
To them, RINOism is ne'er the problem; the problem is seemingly ALWAYS the Evangelical.
Freeper SaraJohnson said something along those lines in a post to me earlier today.
The RINOs blamed Palin, an Evangelical, in 08...
But now that Palin & McCain have been proven to have attracted more votes than Romney & Ryan, they have been vindicated before the RINOs.
The RINOs need an updated 2012 scapegoat; Evangelicals, kicked to the gutter at the beginning of this campaign, are easy targets.
Not to mention that it serves to divert attention from other religious groups who voted far less conservative now and in the past.
Thank you, to whoever gets the credit for posting it first. This is exactly as I had expected - a progressive reduction in the Evangelical conservative voter base, one that's been going on since the late 80s. Conservative evangelicals didn't "sit this election out", but who's listening? It serves our liberal masters to isolate the single most reliable and predictable voter base that consistently opposes government tyranny, and to find a way to turn the general population against them.
White conservative church-going Evangelicals and Protestants supported Romney in greater percentages than practically any other voting demographic. Blaming evangelicals for Obama's win is like blaming Mini Cooper owners for taking up all the parking places at the mall.
Very true! And, if there are debates, how about having CONSERVATIVE moderators for at least a few of them??? Having so many running this time was a huge waste of money, time, energy, resources and public good will. By the time a candidate was picked, there wasn’t enough time left to adequately “sell” him/her to the voting public. We definitely need to streamline the process next time - and I sincerely hope there IS a next time.
Thank you for standing with me, I will not budge nor will you I see. I will choose Freedom over Muslim Sharia Law anyday.
According to How the Faithful Votes: 2012 Preliminary Analysis, released Wednesday by the Pew Research Center, the percentage of white evangelicals voting in the presidential election bumped slightly upward, from 23 percent of all voters in 2008 to 24 percent in 2012. Of those, 79 percent voted for Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, while 20 percent said they voted for President Obama. Thats roughly equal to the number of evangelicals who said they voted for George W. Bush in 2004, but more than former Sen. John McCain received in his presidential bid in 2008 (73 percent).
The Faith and Freedom Coalition, an organization in Duluth, Ga., dedicated to educating and mobilizing people of faith to be effective citizens, had slightly different numbers: Its polling data revealed that the evangelical vote increased to 27 percent this year, with 78 percent of them voting for Romney and 21 percent for Obama. http://www.citizenlink.com/2012/11/08/surveys-evangelical-electorate-vote-increases/
8 out of 10 white Protestants voted for Romney...95% of black Protestants voted for Obama...
6 out of 10 White Catholics voted for Romney...75% of Mexican Catholics voted for Obama...
We definitely have some educating to do with our fellow Hispanics.
Catholic social ministry begins and ends with Jesus Christ, he said. If it doesnt, it isnt Catholic. Archbishop Chaput
What I have been wondering is how many Catholics or evangelicals or true-blue Protestants voted a third party because they could not vote for either liberal candidate.
Somehow the PEW poll isn’t showing that, is it?
Yep. And I think it’s because they are afraid and that drives me crazy.
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