[Alex Murphy]

But Huckabee, who's considering running for president in 2016, told CBN News that ditching these issues may cost the GOP evangelical votes. "It leaves them at home. They just don't go vote, which they didn't do very strongly in 2012. There were fewer evangelical voters who voted for Romney than McCain. If 10 percent more evangelicals had voted for Romney, Romney would be president right now," Huckabee said.

The unstated assumption is that there were just as many evangelicals in 2012 as there were in 2008. What if the problem wasn't that they didn't come out to vote, but that there were fewer evangelicals overall?

[xzins]

How much confidence to I have in random sampling surveys? A fair amount.

They are the surveys that detailed the votes that Romney threw away.

Anecdotally, I know of those who didn’t vote. With each one it was gay issues and pro-life issues. The standard comment: no better than a liberal.