Posted on 11/07/2012 3:49:11 PM PST by MadIsh32
In his re-election victory, Democrat Barack Obama narrowly defeated Republican Mitt Romney in the national popular vote (50% to 48%)1. Obama’s margin of victory was much smaller than in 2008 when he defeated John McCain by a 53% to 46% margin, and he lost ground among white evangelical Protestants and white Catholics.
But the basic religious contours of the 2012 electorate resemble recent elections – traditionally Republican groups such as white evangelicals and weekly churchgoers strongly backed Romney, while traditionally Democratic groups such as black Protestants, Hispanic Catholics, Jews and the religiously unaffiliated backed Obama by large margins.
you metmom are saying "Take it up with them" -- you can bet we ARE, at the same time you can "Take it up with them on DU or Huff or NYtimes" -- here on FR you'll find no Obama supporters among the Catholics, so all of your posts saying "Catholics this and that" are being read by conservative Freeper Catholics who didn't vote O
Or even openly discuss it or accuse them of it. The screeching and recriminations would be monumental.
as expected, now the standard brigade will come out...
Canadian Catholic high school sending 52 students to help Obama campaign in Ohio
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2953248/posts
The question is — why did 20% of white evangelicals vote for Obama? There is no historical reasoning for the vote (which some Catholic idiots who voted for Obama can use as an excuse) — why would evangelicals vote Democrat?
we can eliminate the Latino evangelicals from that 20% (as even among evangelicals Latinos, more voted for Obama than for Romney), but still a significant percentage of white evangelicals voted for Obama. What could be the reason?
Jew-hate never gets a rest.
If Jews had voted 80% for Romney based on support for Israel, the usual gang on FR would be accusing them of putting Israel first.
I'm still praying for you and you to be converted to Christianity -- whether Baptist, Catholic, Evangelical or whatever.
finally one gets fed up and tells Lera and other non-Christians
I will ", shake off the dust of my feet." -- Matt 10:14
For you to read, the Moslem Taliban supporting Obama’s re-election
I agree. Pretty definitely the 69% of American Jews who voted 0 are not represented on FR
Colossians 1:9
ince the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you. We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives,
Colossians 1:9God can make the stubbornest of mules to turn and come to Christ. Come to Christ, Lera.
ince the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you. We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives,
We, as a nation, have already been judged. The die has already been cast. We can’t save the nation as a whole from God’s wrath but we can save ourselves.
God saw worthiness and blessed a group of individuals with the gift of freedom and we just tossed it away for comfort. From before we were born, we were tasked with the protection of Israel and God’s people until the return of the Lord and the eventual perfection of Judea to Christianity. All his children were supposed to unite as one under a returning Christ but we just left our brothers and sisters out to fend for themselves while we went in to get a Starbucks and watch American Idol. We won’t be wiped off the planet, we won’t all die in a physical earthly cataclysm but there will be consequences for all those that supported this.
We have failed.
Hey, Buffalo, NY is a HEAVILY Catholic community, VERY heavy, and look at the red/blue map of NYS and see how they voted, just like they do EVERY year.
For that matter, here’s an interesting link for your consideration.
USA - Statistics by Province by Catholic Population
http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/country/spcus1.html
If the Catholic population in these major cities in these big states voted according to official Church position, yeah, you’d better believe that it would have influenced the elections. It’s the cities that carry states like CA and NY and make them blue.
Red/blue map for president.
http://elections.nytimes.com/2012/results/president
Red/blue map for house. (Shows breakdown better. You can locate virtually every city in the country by where the blue areas are.)
http://elections.nytimes.com/2012/results/house
“Once a Catholic always a Catholic . I’ve heard that said on FR more than once and usually with a sneer aimed at former catholics who became Evangelicals . You don’t have to tell me they are zombies , I already know that but they are your uneducated zombies that grew up in your churches just like Nancy Pelosi , John Kerry and the Kennedy bunch.”
What are your thoughts on ex-evangelical Catholics? Most ex-Catholics I’ve met are bitter desiccated harridans.
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