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To: bibletruth; Digger
Obama won the overall religious vote, 52 percent to 46 percent, reversing President George W. Bush’s 51 percent to 48 percent “values voter” victory over Democratic challenger Sen. John Kerry in 2004. Obama also won the Catholic vote, persuaded young evangelical voters to choose him and began to squeeze shut the so-called “God gap” yawning between religious Democrats and Republicans during the Bush era.

How will the roughly 9.1 million evangelical Christians who voted for Obama vote in the next election? Will Obama's actions compel the 31.2 million evangelicals who didn't vote in the 2008 election to vote next time?

Obama Receives 77% of Jewish Vote-- More Than Kerry
White US Catholics move toward GOP, Hispanic Catholics toward Democrats
Among Catholics, Obama job approval rating decreases to 50 percent

22 posted on 01/22/2012 10:20:07 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Salvation

Yes, people already know the numbers, 54% of the Catholic vote for Obama, about 75% of the Evangelical vote for McCain, and the Democrats their usual, 78 to 80% of the Jewish vote.

But we could win the Catholic vote this time, I believe. We may even make inroads into other liberal groups, like the Jewish vote.

It will be interesting as time goes by, to see how we are faring with Hispanics.


23 posted on 01/22/2012 10:25:16 PM PST by ansel12 (Romney is unquestionably the weakest party front-runner in contemporary political history.)
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