Posted on 09/17/2012 7:31:00 PM PDT by Alex Murphy
What I cant write off is there are 7% to 10% of the electorate who describe themselves as either Tea Partiers or Evangelical Christians that are supporting Barack Obama in these five critical states. This is the empirical part of questioning the lack of support from ultra-conservatives within the Republican Party.
Based on "polls conducted in Colorado, Florida, New Hampshire, Ohio and Virginia within the last ten days." All bulwarks of conservatism, let me tell you!
I’m not surprised at this. At least 10% of the members of this forum have said that they will not support Romney no matter what. They will either vote Obama or not vote at all, a distinction without much of a difference.
A lot of African-Americans are devout evangelical Christians...
So they're abandoning Romney and somehow find Obama more appealing. How anyone could consider themselves "tea party," yet kneel at the feet of Obama doesn't make sense. But then... very little of what's happening in this country makes sense anymore.
About that evangelical Christian number... how many of those people are "christians" of the Jim Wallis mode? That's a huge factor.
I don’t care about polls or vote by polls. No one else should either. Not 50 days out. Bo gotta go!
If they poll people like me then the numbers make sense. I will often give conflicting demographic data to screw with the numbers.
Anecdote, not data:
We know a young couple, under 40 w/2 kids. Both hard workers. The husband had some down time a few years ago and filled in where ever and w/whatever he could. No one had a clue, but they had not been able to make their mortgage and they lost the house recently. They belong to a fundamentalist church. He has stated that zer0 is a Muslim. They take no government aid.
They support xer0 and think Romney is crooked. Nothing will change their minds.
It is beyond frustrating.
I’m still planning on voting for Virgil Goode.
If Romney comes out with a better economic plan, I could change my mind. But so far, Romney is this years Hope and Change candidate.
I don’t think conservatives are abandoning Romney, they were never on board to begin with.
And the GOP-E were idiots to ever think they would be.
Consider Republicans are about to lose to the least popular incumbent President ever. That says a lot.
I’m going to vote for Obama. Just last week I told the girl on the phone that I always vote democrat and can’t wait to vote twice for Obama on election day.
Just because a person may not be supporting Romney does not mean in anyway they are supporting obama, except in the minds of some people.
Evangelicals don’t always vote conservative. In fact I know several who are MORE concerned with “social justice” than any other issue.
As for Tea Partiers- look around this site- lots of freepers can’t/won’t vote for Romney- no matter what.
Also- there is always a possibility that some libs are lying to pollsters..
Many blacks and some Hispanics can be described as evangelicals or charismatics, could that explain those numbers?
People are screwing with the pollsters. Thats all.
A lot of African-Americans are devout evangelical Christians
They don’t have a clue about Christianity if they vote for obama. Unless you can find me a Bible that says, “I knew you in the womb as lifeless tissue” I’ll continue to question their version of the faith.
If they do not embrace the Biblical version of marriage, I won’t embrace their version of the religion.
Fortunately, there are many blacks to do understand the Bible and Christianity. I just wish there were more. I wish there were more whites and Hispanics that did too.
With your help apparently...
Well if people on this forum openly said they will vote for Obama I think they may be on the wrong forum.
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