that puts as a lie your post's statements hitting Catholics alone.
It seems that hispanics as a group voted more for Obama -- even Evangelical hispanics -- more voted for Obama than Romney
And, as I asked above, where is your explanation for 20% of white evangelicals who voted for Obama?
Evangelicals as a % of the population are more than Catholics -- and if you bunch with Protestants, then a larger number of white evangelicals and other protestants voted for Obama than white Catholics
Do you have any reason you can give for this or is the focus on the 25% of the electorate that are Catholics, just damage control on your side?
>Do you have any reason you can give for this or is the focus on the 25% of the electorate that are Catholics, just damage control on your side?<
Cronos, all your foment in your numerous posts to me simply exhibits just that, damage control in the light of the fact that more than twice as many Catholics voted for Obama and are more liberal than evangelicals as a whole.
You keep on demanding an answer as to why (just) 20% of evangelicals voted for Obama, which presupposes we are claiming all evangelicals are true to their name, and the explanation is that the enemy sows tares among the wheat , or that they lack discernment (and who may engage in racism), and such were problems with the N.T. church.
And this question which is a red herring which diverts from issue, which is the fact that evangelicals have voted far more conservatively than Catholics for as long as they were compared, and did so again.
And your argument that they constituted a larger share of the voting block, and comparing numbers of voters is a specious attempt to impugn them, as it is percentages that matter, not how many millions out of the 20% of evangelicals versus the 50% of Catholics who voted liberal!
And the problem is that NO religious group voted as conservatively as evangelicals. And they did so more in this election than even Mormons (if very close).
And white evangelical support for Obama dropped nationally by 6 percentage points since 2008. (http://blogs.denverpost.com/hark/2012/11/07/evangelicals-catholics-nones-parsing-god-vote/1401/?doing_wp_cron=1352465721.4368638992309570312500)
Thus your incessant demand for an answer as to why just 20% of evangelicals voted for Obama, which given answer is obvious, is an irrelevant diversion, as the issue was and remains that those who Rome treats as members in life and in death, even Ted Kennedy types, are far more liberal overall than evangelicals. Your are basically focusing on a gnat and swallowing a camel.
That said, the title “evangelical” is increasingly being used by those who deny the movements basic historical tents, just as liberal RCs do (and the more literally they see the Bible, as evangelicals the more conservative they are).