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dmallind
(10,437 posts)progressoid
(49,827 posts)NOT of Latter Day Saints.
Sorry Mitt, you picked the wrong Savior.
rocktivity
(44,555 posts)I remember reading that Obama got thirty percent of the evangelical vote in 2008.
rocktivity
freedom fighter jh
(1,782 posts)dmallind
(10,437 posts)While evangelicals always went Rep, the margin by which they did had staggering variation.
http://blog.christianitytoday.com/ctpolitics/2008/11/the_evangelical.html
PatrynXX
(5,668 posts)I was going straight to hell for voting for the devil. so that means 30 % of the evangelicals voted for the devil right? course that also means mom was too.
Crowman1979
(3,844 posts)Seriously, these bastards would vote for a pro-life candidate even if they wind up with slave wages. They also get in your face about not being christian enough or that your version of christianity is not the right one.
MissMarple
(9,656 posts)That is way harsh. I know many Christians who aren't like that at all. Many Evangelicals are, but many are not. They just aren't the loud, bullying kind.
Suji to Seoul
(2,035 posts)speed dial.
Evangelicals are creeps. Christian fundamental taliban, but only their brand of fundamentalism. Ask John Scopes.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)alp227
(31,962 posts)jjewell
(618 posts)would have won in 1976. The previous election cycle (1972) started with the re-election of
Nixon/Agnew, and ended with the unelected Ford/Rockefeller. Republicans were "dead meat"
in 1976 whether evangelicals "helped" or not...
NewJeffCT
(56,827 posts)so, if evangelicals hadn't turned out for Carter...
Carter won 297-240 in electoral votes and by 2% in the popular vote.
Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)That race should have never been close. As the other poster indicated, most felt the Democrats had that election locked up when Nixon resigned...and then to have Ford pardon him...well, that should have delivered a massive electoral defeat for the Republicans. But Carter barely won and probably would have lost had Ford been given an extra week to campaign. He held a 20-point lead on Ford and it vanished within months.
He was able to hang on, of course, and the electoral college wasn't as razor thin as we saw in 2000, but it shouldn't have been that close.
RedCloud
(9,230 posts)Therefore it is the sinful word of the devil and those five evil justcies must be removed from the court!
totodeinhere
(13,037 posts)who deserves reelection. But if it means that they won't vote for Romney merely because he is a Mormon, then that's unfortunate. Religion has no place in elections, although of course the right wing always tries to make it so.
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,355 posts)but, hey, we'll need all the votes we can get (without, hopefully, compromising our principles).
mercymechap
(579 posts)I think they would rather vote for a Mormon (while holding their nose) than to vote for a Kenyan, Muslim, Rev Wright follower! They hate Obama much more than they hate a Republican that is a member of a cult.