Evangelical turnout A national post-election survey commissioned by the Faith and Freedom Coalition last night found that the evangelical vote increased in 2012 to a record 27% of the electorate and that white evangelicals voted roughly 78% for Mitt Romney to 21% for Barack Obama. This was the highest share of the vote in modern political history for evangelicals, Reed said.
“Evangelicals turned out in record numbers and voted as heavily for Mitt Romney yesterday as they did for George W. Bush in 2004,” Reed observed. “That is an astonishing outcome that few would have predicted even a few months ago. But Romney underperformed with younger voters and minorities and that in the end made the difference for Obama.”
Catholic voters who regularly attend Mass broke 67% for Romney to 32% for Obama. This represented a swing of 35% in the direction of the GOP since 2008. Romney also won white Catholics by a margin of 59% to 40%, a margin of 19 points among a group that historically has voted for the winner. Nevertheless, Obama narrowly won the Catholic vote driven largely by over-performing among Hispanic Catholics.
This poll shows faithful Catholics breaking 67-32 for Romney.
If I'm doing the math right, 21 percent of the evangelical vote (which was 27 percent of all voters) is 6.8 million. Those defectors also more than supplied Obama with his margin of victory.
RE: A national post-election survey commissioned by the Faith and Freedom Coalition last night found that the evangelical vote increased in 2012 to a record 27% of the electorate and that white evangelicals voted roughly 78% for Mitt Romney to 21% for Barack Obama. This was the highest share of the vote in modern political history for evangelicals, Reed said.
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OK, let’s do some calculations.
27% of the approximately 120 million votes is 32.4 million votes !!
21% of 32.4 million (that’s the percentage of Evangelicals who voted Obama ) is : 6.8 Million votes !!
Obama won by just over 3 million votes !!.
That means a lot of evangelicals (nearly 7 million ) voted for a president who supports gay marriage and refuses to protect babies born alive.
How can they live with themselves and their votes?