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 Michael Medved

Will Evangelicals Really Sit Out the Election?

October 9, 2012 @ 11:21 am (Updated: 8:56 am - 10/10/12 )

Recent polls produced confusing results in the presidential contest - with Barack Obama ahead over-all, but Mitt Romney leading comfortably among independents.

How could this be?-as independents are the key swing votes that settle closely divided elections? Actually, many polls over-sample Democrats-predicting they'll turn out in record numbers, exceeding even the tidal wave for the hope-and-change campaign of 2008. Moreover, they also project conservative-leaning groups staying home: analysis of the Marist Poll in key swing states projected 20 to 30 percent lower white Evangelical participation than last time.

This flows from liberal assumptions that religious conservatives are disengaged from this election, and uncomfortable with Romney's Mormon faith. This means that Evangelicals can shock the elites and tip the results by rallying at least as strongly for Romney-Ryan as they did for George W. Bush-or John McCain.

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  • hpitantso wrote...
    Those who walk the walk of
    October 11, 2012 4:06 am
    Rick Santorum who doesn't want Obama to win but main stream conservatives outside of politics will not back Romney
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  • It's me! Ha ha! wrote...
    These Morons. These Parrots. Whatever they are
    October 11, 2012 10:57 am
    deep down most of them do realize their Dear Leader and the regime is done in America this November. I am no longer seeing the fake bluster that was here just over a week ago when they were told that their Dear Leader had won the election with the made up cooked numbers from the deliberate over sample of likely useful idiot voters.

    Nothing that the Obama ministry of re immac propaganda is resonating, sticking to the wall, with anyone other than mind numbed left wing Parrots. The last 4 years has been FOUR years much too long!

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