Huckabee: If Just 10 Percent More Evangelicals Had Voted, Obama Would Not Be President

Christian Post ^ | 09/27/2014 | Napp Nazworth

[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.

[RginTN]

Too bad Romney ignored the Christian vote and pandered to the mushes & leftists.

[yoe]

That is why we need someone like Ted Cruz who can energize the base to get out and vote.

Agreed! We also need conservative leaning voters to stop the constant smearing of the GOP...calling them do nothings, hateful, money hungry, "ignoring us"....these words are from comments made by Freepers. The GOP doesn't need any help from these whiners with President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid spending MILLIONS to smear conservatives in critical races across the nation, these so-called-conservatives are doing heavy lifting for Progressives and the Politically Correct....you know who you are so if you're not trolls...stop smearing the GOP.

[The_Republic_Of_Maine]

Voted for wh9 Mike? Pro-abort, pro-radical homosexual agenda Romney?

Mike I hope yuo were a better pastor than you are a politician and mouth piece for the republican party.

[golf lover]

They got a Muslim instead?

[Ken522]

percent more Evangelicals had voted in the last presidential election ...

That's right, and if wishes were fishes we'd all cast nets! Duhhh!!!

[Arthur McGowan]

Cardinal O’Malley, Archbishop Gomez, and many more, are hard at work bringing more pro-abortion voters into the country, to overwhelm the pro-life movement.

[Scoutmaster]

I think you should post that at least twice.

[rrrod]

Not a fan of Huck but he is correcto.

[GeronL]

The GOPe deserves to be constantly smeared when it makes people like McConnell and Boehner leaders.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

If just a majority of RINOs didn’t cheat to steal the nomination for RINOmney, the polling places would have overflowed with motivated conservative voters.

[COBOL2Java]

You want them to vote? Put up candidates who share their basic values and not RINO scumbags

"OK, so my good friend may, in the past, have supported gay marriage, and he may, in the past, have supported expanding the government, and may, in the past, have voted to increase spending for the EPA and the Department of Education (which supports teaching masturbation to your Kindergartners), and he didn't support impeachment of Eric Holder, or Obama, and only paid lip service when the Parks Service shut down the WW II Memorial to the Veterans who'd arrived to visit it."

"But hey! He's got an 'R' after his name! That's all that counts - am I right?"

"His is the kind of leadership we need in Washington!"

"And as for those things I mentioned? Don't worry! He promises, after he's reelected, he'll be your conservative in Congress!"

[Navy Patriot]

Huckabee: If Just 10 Percent More Evangelicals Had Voted, Obama Would Not Be President

If Huckleberry ever took a hard line against the Socialist left with executive action, I would pay attention to him.

[discostu]

Put up candidates worth voting for and the voters will show. Keep running losers and scumbags like Huck and Mitt the voters stay home.

[savedbygrace]

When politicians blame voters for losses, they are only fooling themselves.

[greyfoxx39]

If just a majority of RINOs didn’t cheat to steal the nomination for RINOmney, the polling places would have overflowed with motivated conservative voters.

And, if Romney hadn't trashed the Christian candidates, the polling places would have overflowed with motivated Christian conservative voters!

[re_nortex]

The Huckster’s a cafeteria Christian if there ever was one.

He's every bit as bad as William Jennings Bryan, a man who maliciously twisted the Word of God to push a program of pure evil: income tax, welfare and the direct election of senators.

[greene66]

Well, my best friend and his family are evangelical, and he used to be a real high-motivation ‘rah-rah’ Republican up until very recent years. Now I think he distrusts the GOP even more than I do, and he keeps telling me he’s through with voting altogether.

When you have a 2012 Republican nominee who actually helped facilitate homo-marriage in his state when governor, you are going to lose social conservatives. I’m not an evangelical, but this played a big part in why Romney didn’t get my vote. Add Romney’s pathetic reaction to the Chick-Fil-A “buycott.” When questioned, he couldn’t even bring himself to come up with a pat statement commending people for standing up for their beliefs. Instead, it was a stuttering “uh, uh, that’s not part of my campaign.” My God, what a cowardly, spineless answer. Romney epitomizes the kind of politician I have nothing but utter contempt for. Absolutely loathesome.

My evangelical friend ‘did’ vote for Romney. But I have the strong sense from him and several others that this was indeed a final straw. Like something very deep was severed. Hard to really put in words.

[5thGenTexan]

If they had been given a palatable choice, they would have. I am tired of the people the GOP craps on being blamed for being tired of it.

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

[Arm_Bears]

If the GOP-e hadn’t antagonized 10%+ of the base in 2012 . . .