Posted on 09/27/2014 12:15:37 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
WASHINGTON — Gov. Mike Huckabee encouraged pastors to speak out on political issues and for social conservatives to get more fellow adherents registered and to the polls.
Social conservatives are not in trouble because of the actions of government, they are in trouble because social conservatives are not speaking out and are not voting in large numbers, Huckabee said Friday at the Family Research Council's Values Voter Summit.
Huckabee estimated that there are probably over 100 million social conservatives in the United States. Using just the example of Evangelicals, he said there are about 80 million, but only half of them are even registered to vote, and of those who are registered, only 20 million actually vote in a presidential year.
An even smaller number, about 10 million, vote in midterm elections and an even smaller number than that vote in the primary elections that determine who the major party candidates will be.
"What would happen," he asked, "if, instead of half of those voters being registered, 75 percent of them were? And what would happen if, instead of half of them voting, 75 percent of them voted? If 10 percent more Evangelicals had voted in the last presidential election, we would have a different president than the one we have right now."
Huckabee also cited research conducted by George Barna, a Christian pollster, showing that 90 percent of pastors believe that the Bible speaks to the important issues of the day, but only 10 percent of pastors say they preach and teach on what the Bible says about the important issues of the day.
Politicians will listen to the concerns of social conservatives if they speak out more and vote in higher numbers, Huckabee explained.
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That is why we need someone like Ted Cruz who can energize the base to get out and vote.
Since Evangelicals vote 76% to 79% GOP as a category, the more the merrier.
if you think that Jesus return is days away, there is not much motivation to vote. All too many Christians have ceded the earth to Satan.
Can’t and Won’t vote for:
Open borders
Abortion
Homosexuality
The Huckster’s a cafeteria Christian if there ever was one. He picks and chooses what parts of the Bible he wants to believe and loves to be called Reverend.
Blech!
It doesn’t matter “who stayed home” what matters is the candidate worth voting for?
There needs to be a concerted, longterm effort to get the Evangelicals in these particular states to vote. If they do, these three states are ours and with them the POTUS.
Bingo!
And you’d think that someone like Huckabee, who is a Minister, would have brought those salient facts up in this conversation. Especially that both Candidate were the same on those issues with the exception of Open borders, which Romney now has accepted as well
Huckabee is not much of a minister.
True, I was answering Huckabee’s contention.
You want them to vote? Put up candidates who share their basic values and not RINO scumbags
For how long have political types lamented over the voting pattern of inner city minorities, asking when they would stop simply voting for the letter behind the name. Arguing if they would pay attention to what that person did while in office, they wouldn’t vote that way. Now, the Republicans are lamenting that we won’t simply vote for the letter behind the candidate’s name.
I don't know what he means by "not speaking out" but no social conservative candidates might have something to do with the lack of voting.
Gee Mike, it took you a while to do the math.
Because there is no evidence that any significant number of ‘usual’ Republican voters stayed home at all.
Lower election turnouts have been going on for decades and aren’t limited to any one party or philosophy.
Romney lost more believers' votes than the foul-mouthed McCain.
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