Posted on 11/21/2012 3:13:08 AM PST by IbJensen
WASHINGTON, D.C., November 20, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com) -At least three-quarters – and perhaps as much as 90 percent – of homosexual voters supported Barack Obama in the 2012 presidential election, a high return on the president’s decision to court key Democratic constituencies.
A national poll found that homosexual and transgender voters backed Barack Obama over Mitt Romney by a margin of 76 percent to 22 percent.
LGBT voters made up five percent of the electorate, according to Gary J. Gates of the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law, which specializes in homosexual and transgender issues. The survey was conducted in conjunction with Gallup.
That is higher than the highest estimate of the homosexual population, which Gallup has said totals 3.4 percent.
The findings were, perhaps surprisingly, lower than other estimates.
A Community Marketing & Insights (CMI) pre-election poll showed nearly 90 percent of homosexuals planned to vote for Obama.
“In this close election, data suggest that the overwhelming LGBT support for President Obama constitutes a key factor in his victory,” Gates stated.
A changing electorate – of which homosexual voters are a favored component – powered Obama to victory.
“Democrats have been winning big over Republicans among gay voters, African-Americans, Latinos, Asian-Americans, and Jews. Some of the groups are relatively small, but together they make up about one-third of the electorate, forcing Republicans to capture much of the remaining two-thirds to win elections,” the New York Times reported. “By comparison, white evangelical voters, who vote overwhelmingly for Republicans, make up about one-fourth of the electorate, and their numbers are not growing as rapidly. ”
Although evangelicals supported Mitt Romney by double-digits, Roman Catholic voters favored Obama by 15 percent.
However, the Catholic vote split largely down ethnic lines. White Catholics, who made up 18 percent of the electorate, supported Romney over Obama 59-40. Hispanic Catholics, on the other hand, favored President Obama by 54 points.
A recent Barna study showed 60 percent of Hispanics believe marriage is between one man and one woman. They are evenly split on abortion.
But Charisma News reports, “54 percent identify themselves first as Hispanic or Latino before American, Catholic, or Christian.”
The electoral loss has some Republicans insisting the party must jettison its pro-life plank and focus on pro-family issues.
Joseph Curl of The Washington Times wrote that the Republican Party “needs to run away from its archaic stance” on abortion and is “on the wrong side of history” on redefining marriage. Charles Krauthammer also proposed that the party embrace amnesty for illegal immigrants.
Principled conservatives have said the worst thing the Republican Party can do is forsake its principles.
Erick Erickson of RedState.com has written the one-quarter of Hispanics and the one-tenth of black voters who supported Mitt Romney “are strongly social conservative and could not vote for the party of killing kids and gay marriage. So, they voted GOP. You throw out the social conservatives and you throw out those Hispanic and black voters.”
Before the election, Bishop E.W. Jackson attempted to lead an “exodus” of black voters who put the teachings of Scripture above party allegiance out of the Democratic Party. He vows to continue his outreach.
Many believe certain fixtures of the Republican establishment are exploiting the 2012 election results to liberalize the party, long a goal of much of the GOP leadership.
Matthew Schmitz wrote in First Things, “As per usual, the inevitable calls to abandon social issues will have more to do with the preferences of individual pundits than a sober reading of the facts
22 percent voted for Romney....it had to be due to his economic background.
He isn’t just the first ‘black’ president...
Romney got licked
Spanish language ads, pushing the Church's solid stance against abortion or homosexual unions might have been effective in targeting this group and swaying them to vote GOP.
The electoral loss has some Republicans insisting the party must jettison its pro-life plank and focus on pro-family issues.
Before saying that, though, were those votes cast in districts where they would have made a difference, either in the Senate races, or in the POTUS race? It makes no sense to alienate voters on the right in swing states while catering to Hispanics leaning left in heavily Blue zones.
If someone is going courting a specific voter group, they better make sure the votes they gain are going to electorally offset the votes they will lose by abandoning core Conservative principles.
There is no more pro-family issue than the lives of its offspring.
Conservative issues tend to clump together, If you're pro-life, you are generally pro-family and anti-homosexual agenda. It is hard to reconcile otherwise, and if you are pro-family, you'd show a strong predilection toward fiscal conservatism as well.
All recent polls are based on a barely 9% response rate FOR NORMAL people. The homosexuals respond to polls at a 100% rate ~ the result is their responses are automatically weighted 11 Times greater than reality!
Unfortunately, those distorted views are used to plan and push for policies which might not otherwise be considered.
Three-quarters of 2% of the population.
OMIGAWD, IT’S A MANDATE!!!
/sarc
The vast majority of the heathen population of Sodom and Gommorrah would have voted for the Dems as well. Just because the evil tide rises doesn’t mean its time for conservative patriots to hitch a ride on it.
“survey was conducted in conjunction with Gallup” : Are we supposed to believe Gallup, especially when there is no election to verify their results?
But the American people got screwed for decades!
Birds of a feather...
Seems they’ve buried the lead. The curious story is that somehow Romney got 25% of the gay vote.
Attracted to evil as a moth to light.
LLS
Just a slight edit for accuracy. :)
It is unfortunate that the American people have become so Stupid! The government has no place in our bedrooms, or in our Doctors office. We were free to make those decision before people got the scewed idear that the government can decide if we can have a gay relationship, what church to go to, whether or not we can have an abortion. They are picking up speed at how fast they are coming to the point of doing all of our thinking for us. Too Late America, You voted, we all have to live with this, Thanks.
And for the same reason so many Blacks voted for him...
Maybe I am just a simpleton, but, what does being gay have to do with our government, what does abortion have to do with our government?? The Functioning of our Government? Anybody?
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