“I do think that a lot of it was just that the social conservatives either decided that they could not support a Mormon or that Romney did not share their values, and they just decided not to vote.”
My husband, who was raised Baptist says he remembers the most mild-mannered ministers of his youth absolutely castigating the Morman religion from the pulpit. I don’t know if that is still the case everywhere, but a few years ago our local Baptist minister went on a tirade from the pulpit against the Mormans.
My husband thinks some Baptists could not bring themselves to pull the lever. I don’t know if the internals showed that.
Romney got 79% of the Evangelical vote, but I still think that his pro-abortion, pro-homosexual, anti-social conservatism, anti-tea party campaign and wackiness hurt him overall, many voters are a little afraid to make a man president, who literally believes and teaches, that they are witnessing him in the process of becoming a God.