Santorum Out, Evangelicals Edge Closer to Romney, but Warily

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They really want a Christian theocracy:

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[Napoleon]

Luckily for us, decreasing.

[Grumpier Than Thou]

Luckily for us, decreasing.

[memphis]

This is going to be a VERY tough sell. Evangelicals really, really don't like Mormons. Against a white Protestant Democrat, Romney could easily lose the South. Against Obama, he shouldn't have much trouble in Dixie.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

This is going to be a VERY tough sell. Evangelicals really, really don't like Mormons. Against a white Protestant Democrat, Romney could easily lose the South. Against Obama, he shouldn't have much trouble in Dixie.

Evangelicals like Muslims even less.

Besides, according to Pew the only one of the close election swing states that has evangelicals at higher rate than the national average is Virginia. The evangelicals are mainly concentrated in safe Republican states.

[memphis]

This is going to be a VERY tough sell. Evangelicals really, really don't like Mormons. Against a white Protestant Democrat, Romney could easily lose the South. Against Obama, he shouldn't have much trouble in Dixie.

Evangelicals like Muslims even less.

Besides, according to Pew the only one of the close election swing states that has evangelicals at higher rate than the national average is Virginia. The evangelicals are mainly concentrated in safe Republican states.

It's a rather circular argument you make. Evangelicals are concentrated in Republican states because they are a strong Republican constituency. Bill Clinton would destroy Romney in the South, but we'll never get to see. And the Obama/birther/Muslim meme is a dark stain on current politics. It says a lot about evangelicals that this is apparantly an issue.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Bill Clinton would destroy Romney in the South, but we'll never get to see.

And if we did, we'd likely find you were wrong.  Absent Perot, the only Southern states Clinton would have won in his two tries were Arkansas, Louisiana, and Tennessee, and all three states have trended strongly Republican since then.  I think Billy would lose those three if he were running against Romney today, tho he would get back into the White House.

While Bill would have beaten Bob even if Ross had stayed home, in 1992 without Ross, it would have been a close election that favored George.  Bill's EV landslides were thanks to Ross.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

Perot took about equally from both parties.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Perot took about equally from both parties.

That was less untrue in 1996 than in 1992, but it is wishful thinking on the part of Clinton-backers.  Even if it were true that after having been exposed to the Perot campaign, his voters would have split equally if he had been gone, it ignores the impact of Perot spending almost all his time and money in bashing Bush in 1992.

[All Along The Watchtower]

This is going to be a VERY tough sell. Evangelicals really, really don't like Mormons. Against a white Protestant Democrat, Romney could easily lose the South. Against Obama, he shouldn't have much trouble in Dixie.

Evangelicals like Muslims even less.

Besides, according to Pew the only one of the close election swing states that has evangelicals at higher rate than the national average is Virginia. The evangelicals are mainly concentrated in safe Republican states.

It's a rather circular argument you make. Evangelicals are concentrated in Republican states because they are a strong Republican constituency. Bill Clinton would destroy Romney in the South, but we'll never get to see. And the Obama/birther/Muslim meme is a dark stain on current politics. It says a lot about evangelicals that this is apparantly an issue.

It also says a lot about evangelicals that they put their faith in a political party that makes a mockery of the tenets of the Gospel.