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Mitt Romney has faced an uphill climb to claim the support of Christian evangelical voters, although he still garners far more support from this group than does President Obama. A recent poll demonstrates the struggle:
Even before he announced his support for same-sex marriage, President Obama was badly trailing Republican Mitt Romney among evangelical Christians, the group most committed to traditional forms of marriage, according to a new poll about the attitudes of religious voters.
Romney led Obama by 68% to 19% among evangelicals in the poll released Thursday by the Public Religion Research Institute and the Religion News Service. The nationwide poll was conducted over four days ending Sunday, well before Obama’s remarks about same-sex marriage. (And no questions were asked on that topic.)
The good news for the Obama campaign is that Romney doesn’t have as much support yet among evangelicals as Republican John McCain did in the 2008 election, when exit polls showed that he had captured 73% of the evangelical vote. George W. Bush did even better in 2004, when he claimed 79% of evangelicals.
If Obama wanted to take one step to solidify evangelicals’ vote behind Romney, however, it was to publicly endorse same-sex marriage. Much ado is being made about how Obama’s evolution (more appropriately, his switcheroo) will excite his base. Well, for every action there is an opposite reaction. Obama will earn very few evangelical votes this year. That will carry weight because Obama snagged 26 percent of the evangelical vote in 2008.
It’s fascinating to watch how Democrats — who have overseen a disastrous economy during the last three and a half years — are suddenly so interested in so-called “wedge” issues such as marriage and forced buying of contraception. How convenient.
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Bill| 5.10.12 @ 3:18PM
O Fags, O Obama, say No Fags Nobama.
DRed| 5.10.12 @ 3:20PM
Is there really no way to ban this idiot?
Bill| 5.10.12 @ 6:04PM
The First Amendment still exists!
9thID| 5.10.12 @ 4:07PM
Like all things conservative, if only Romney had a record to run on being against gay activism, but he doesn't...
Mender| 5.10.12 @ 4:19PM
The last thing Romney needs to do is start talking about gay marriage. This was a naked (ho ho) play by Obama to raise funds from Hollywood stars and gay people and a trap Romney can only fall into.
Mike 3/505| 5.10.12 @ 5:27PM
"The last thing Romney needs to do is start talking about gay marriage."
Correct. That would be alloing the left to define the debate. When the Liberals bring it up, let's make sure we respond describing what they are really asking for, to wit: Government support, sanction and subsidy of a perverse lifestyle that involves one man inserting his penis in another man's anus. Poke 'em in the eye, instead of dancing around the subject.
Mike 3/505| 5.10.12 @ 5:27PM
**allowing
Occam's Tool| 5.10.12 @ 5:34PM
The best thing for Romney to do is focus on the economy.
spike59| 5.11.12 @ 6:09AM
the Obama campaign and the MSM (but i repeat myself) are doing their darnedest to keep 'the conversation' OFF the economy; Romney need not play along. the worst thing he can do is play into their hands by wasting time, breath, and resources on distractions. the best thing he can do is go on the attack. McCain was too busy playing defense and trying not too offend anybody to articulate why he should be elected
RJ| 5.10.12 @ 5:36PM
I am sure that Obama and the liberals will be happy to talk about any issue other than the economy. Too bad, because his economic policies are front and center in this election, followed by issues related to expanded government.
Paul| 5.10.12 @ 7:04PM
Obama and the democrats are following the lead of team Bush in 2004. When the president had started 2 disastrous wars and problems with the economy were becoming apparent, Karl Rove coordinated some gay marriage bans in some states, to get the homophobes out to vote for Bush. This is slimy regardless who does it. Do you all agree? I assume not.
Unger| 5.10.12 @ 7:52PM
The author David Bass quotes from the Chicago Tribune, "Even before he announced his support for same-sex marriage, President Obama was badly trailing Republican Mitt Romney among evangelical Christians...."
I would be baffled at any adult Christian registered voter in the United States and all its territories that has even a smidgen of faith confidence in our current president.
Now, this is not to say that the default action is to vote for 'ABO' (now Romney). No, the challenger to this incumbent must prove himself worthy of the vote.
All that to say: No true professing Christian can vote for Obama. Period. That's not partisan. That is the moral values that a Christian must have, must uphold. Christians are to be very cognizant of what is going on around them and occuring in this word. So no Christian in America is with excuse. None can be ignorant of facts and behaviors. There is nothing that Obama does that engenders Christian support. And this was true long before yesterday's "pronouncement."
Nite| 5.10.12 @ 10:13PM
That little stunt Obama pulled will not only turn out Evangelicals, but Catholics and other religious people to vote for Romney. Heck my Democratic relatives are voting for Romney this time.
Oldefarte| 5.10.12 @ 11:16PM
I agree with Rush's recent opinion that surveyed-polled voters express their favorable attitude regarding things such as homosexual marriage, Obama etc so as not to appear racist, discriminatory, etc; but when they enter the privacy of the voting booth, they alternatively express their true feeling regarding same. My guess [and hope] is that the November elections are going to definately favor Romney and Republicans. This country does not have four more years of this administration's radical policies left, and if voters do not correct their huge mistake of 11/4/08, the end will come soon thereafter!!!!!!!!!!
RJ| 5.10.12 @ 11:39PM
Something like that happened in California in 1978 regarding Proposition 13. The polls just before the election said it was too close to call and during the campaign much of the media conveyed the message that Proposition 13 was flawed/irresponsible and that voters in support of it were naive, greedy or stupid. After Proposition 13 was approved for the ballot, the Legislature presented Proposition 8, which was billed as "moderate" and more "responsible." It cut property taxes too, but not as much and didn't have the protections that Prop 13 had.
Howard Jarvis, long considered a political John the Baptist (a voice in the wilderness), kept saying Prop 13 was written by the people; Prop 8 was written by politicians. Who do you trust? When the votes were counted, Prop 13 won with 65% of the vote and even more surprisingly, Prop 8 lost. The voters were making a clear statement to the legislature. I wish California was like that today.
David Shoup| 5.11.12 @ 6:04AM
We Evangelicals are not monolithic, single issue pinheads who only care if a President goes to church and carries a Bible (as if that really mattered to the likes of Bill Fellatio Clinton). We are more concerned with the federal government's compliance (or not) with the Constitution and the mountain of federal debt to which we have been chained. The prison or slavery analogy is intentional. We really don't care about a President's faith. We care how he governs.
spike59| 5.11.12 @ 6:12AM
"We really don't care about a President's faith."
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unless he lies about it and presents himself as something he's obviously not; that goes directly to character
Derek Leaberry| 5.11.12 @ 7:10AM
The Republican Party is abandoning religious conservatives as well. So many Republicans are now on board with the left-wing cultural agenda these days. Dick Cheney. Liz Cheney. Donald Rumsfeld. Ann Coulter. Grover Norquist. The Bush women. Alan Simpson. Scott Brown. Senator Richard Burr of North Carolina. Half of the Republican members of the New Hamsphire legislature. Half the writers at this blog including Aaron Goldstein and Ross Kaminsky. They are as much the enemy as Barack Obama.
Religious conservatives should understand this fact. Any Republican overtures to them are only ruses to win religious conservative votes. Once in office, Mitt Romney and the Republican party will do nothing for you. GOProud and the Log Cabin Republicans will be more welcome in the White House and the Senate offices than you. Homosexuals will be liberally sprinkled throughout a Romney Administration. Homosexual marriage and abortion will not be addressed and conveniently ignored. Twenty years from now, abortion will still be law of the land and homosexual marriage will become the law of all fifty states. And there is nothing the Republicans will do to prevent this conclusion. After all, the Republican elite is all about money. They are very comfortable with the dominant liberal cultural elite and, in private moments, have contempt for religious and cultural conservatives. We are to vote and shut up.
9thID| 5.11.12 @ 11:13AM
More and more true Evangelicals I talk to are waking up to the facts of the case you presented. Like me, many of us will vote in the local, state, and Congressional races, but leave the neo-Marxist RomneyCare & ObamaCare boxes empty.
The Liber-al/Liberal-tarian Goldstein & Kaminsky types posing as "conservatives" really give this site a blackeye. They do not even support the 3-legged stool of Conservatism...
Ryan| 5.11.12 @ 8:38AM
Obama's real trouble may be taking the black vote for granted on this one, and possibly some of the Hispanic vote. If he loses 1-2% (as actually has more or less been the trend in the last few election cycles), it could cost him critically.