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To: jo kus; EyeGuy; All
Poor Alex should look to the beam in his own congregation's eyes first.

Ping me the next time you talk about me, please. Here are the final results - now footnoted and annotated - the "by the numbers" breakdown of the religious voter for the 2008 Presidential election:

75% McCain, 25% Obama - [White7 Born Again5] Evangelicals1,8
65% McCain, xx% Obama - Weekly church-attending Protestants7
65% McCain, 34% Obama - White Protestants7,8
62% McCain, 35% Obama - State of Utah3
55% McCain, 43% Obama - Weekly mass-attending Catholics 6,9
54% McCain, 44% Obama - Weekly church-goers1,4,7
54% McCain, 45% Obama - Protestants6,8
51% McCain, 49% Obama - White Catholics1,7
xx% McCain, 53% Obama - Monthly church-goers4**
45% McCain, 54% Obama - Catholics1,4,6,8,9
xx% McCain, 59% Obama - Semi-annual church-goers4**
38% McCain, 61% Obama - Occasional churchgoers1
37% McCain, 61% Obama - Non-weekly-mass-attending Catholics6
xx% McCain, 67% Obama - Hispanic Catholics8**
xx% McCain, 68% Obama - Don't attend church4 **
21% McCain, 78% Obama - American Jews2,8

** No source provided voting percentages for the other party.

Citations:
1 The Awesome Blue God -- How Obama Forged A New Faith Coalition
2 Exit polls: 78% of Jews voted for Obama
3 Utah's red loses some of its luster
4 Obama's Religious Appeal: Still Missing Evangelicals - which TIME renamed as Obama: Bringing (Some) Evangelicals In
5 The Evangelical Electoral Map
6 What's wrong with Catholic voters? What's wrong with Catholics?
7 Evangelical Voters Favor McCain by Wide Margins
8 Catholic voters heavily favored Obama, analysis shows
9 What Happened to the Catholic Vote?

All numbers cited are the first ones reported in the press. In cases of multiple reports, some percentages cited were not exact. However, the number was within 2% of all the other sources, lending credence to the general number & placement overall.

Other resources:
With the Help of Catholics…Obama’s Victory
Results! Evangelicals

68 posted on 11/07/2008 6:01:47 AM PST by Alex Murphy ( "Every country has the government it deserves" - Joseph Marie de Maistre)
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To: Alex Murphy
Ping me the next time you talk about me, please. Here are the final results - now footnoted and annotated - the "by the numbers" breakdown of the religious voter for the 2008 Presidential election:

You missed the whole point. Protestants voted for Obama, as well, and only by a slightly lesser margin... How sad.

Regards

80 posted on 11/07/2008 9:24:06 AM PST by jo kus (You can't lose your faith? What about Luke 8:13...? God says you can...)
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To: Alex Murphy

I seem to remember Rudy Giuliani going after these kind of voters, the ones who were basically clueless hero worshippers.


98 posted on 11/07/2008 6:39:15 PM PST by Kevmo (Palin/Hunter 2012)
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