Poll: Romney has strong evangelical support

[gilliam]

A poll out from the Public Religion Research Institute today shows that, despite his troubles with the demographic during the primary, Mitt Romney gets strong support from white evangelical voters:
Despite primary struggles with evangelical voters evidenced by losses in southern Bible Belt states, Mitt Romney has a large lead over President Barack Obama among white evangelical voters, a poll released Thursday showed.

The Public Religion Research Institute poll showed Obama carrying Catholic and mainline Protestant voters, as well as voters who did not identify a particular denomination.

Romney’s lead among white evangelicals was nearly 50 percentage points, as 68% chose him and 19% chose Obama in the survey.
It’s not exactly surprising that evangelicals would back Romney when it’s between him and Obama. But still, strong support from evangelicals is crucial to Romney’s chances in November – and the new focus on gay marriage ushered in by Obama’s announcement yesterday will further cement Romney’s advantage with the demographic.

politico.com/blogs/burns-haberman/2012/05/poll-romney-has-strong-evangelical-support-123081.html

 

[_Abyssinia]

There were some social conservatives who were still a bit suspect of Romney who will now rally around him because of Barack Obama’s support for gay ‘marriage’ and Mitt Romney’s opposition to it.

 

[tarboy]

I’m only suprised at the strong continued support of Catholics and mainline Protestants for Obama.
“Obama carried Catholics 46% to 39% and mainline Protestants 50% to 37%, the survey said”

 

[followingtheway]

There were some social conservatives who were still a bit suspect of Romney who will now rally around him because of Barack Obama’s support for gay ‘marriage’ and Mitt Romney’s opposition to it.

And the abortion issue of course.

 

[CatholicBoy1957]

I’m only suprised at the strong continued support of Catholics and mainline Protestants for Obama.
“Obama carried Catholics 46% to 39% and mainline Protestants 50% to 37%, the survey said”

Really? There should be virtually no surprise whatsoever. Only about 20% of all people who “self-identify” as “Catholic” actually attend mass on Sunday, and out of that 20%, most do not even believe in Catholicism, or probably even know what it is.

 

[oldcelt]

This is a group that wouldn’t have voted for the President in any case. No loss to his tally.

John

 

[4Squarebaby]

I’m only suprised at the strong continued support of Catholics and mainline Protestants for Obama.
“Obama carried Catholics 46% to 39% and mainline Protestants 50% to 37%, the survey said”

Really? There should be virtually no surprise whatsoever. Only about 20% of all people who “self-identify” as “Catholic” actually attend mass on Sunday, and out of that 20%, most do not even believe in Catholicism, or probably even know what it is.

And “mainline” is almost code for politically liberal since the 1970s.

All of these stories about gay marriage will hurt more come the next poll. While the president will get the Black vote until he announces himself as white and sends Black people to the showers and ovens among other evangelics they will hear the back story.

That. he was for same sex marriage but then his understanding of Christianity caused him to be against it, even though his home church said it was okay just as he was running for statewide office

And then he seems to have forgotten his faith, or accepted Reverend Wright’s teaching on the matter when he was finally forced to finish his devolution back to his position before he started running for high office