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John McCain won 73 percent of the evangelical vote, a higher share than the born-again George W. Bush in 2000. According to a survey for the Faith and Freedom Coalition conducted by Public Opinion Strategies, 32 percent of all voters in 2010 were Christian conservatives, and 72 percent of them voted Republican.

The evangelical vote, which comprised an astonishing 44 percent of GOP presidential primary voters in 2008, is poised to play a larger role than ever. The media, which has been publishing the obituary of religious conservatives prematurely for a quarter century, will discover once again that social conservatives are here to stay.

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[Persevero]

Vote, Christians, vote!!

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

Funny thing is, there’s only about 10,000 Dominionists in the country - and they’re only known at all because Gary North is, unfortunately, such a prolific writer and spreads his ecclesiological and eschatological heresies far and wide.

[loveliberty2]

The following excerpt is from President John Adams' First Inaugural Address:

" . . . and, with humble reverence, I feel it to be my duty to add, if a veneration for the religion of a people who profess and call themselves Christians, and a fixed resolution to consider a decent respect for Christianity among the best recommendations for the public service, can enable me in any degree to comply with your wishes, it shall be my strenuous endeavor that this sagacious injunction of the two Houses shall not be without effect.

"With this great example before me, with the sense and spirit, the faith and honor, the duty and interest, of the same American people pledged to support the Constitution of the United States, I entertain no doubt of its continuance in all its energy, and my mind is prepared without hesitation to lay myself under the most solemn obligations to support it to the utmost of my power.

"And may that Being who is supreme over all, the Patron of Order, the Fountain of Justice, and the Protector in all ages of the world of virtuous liberty, continue His blessing upon this nation and its Government and give it all possible success and duration consistent with the ends of His providence."

[Alex Murphy]

Barack Obama was supposed to usher in a new era of religious voting patterns by appealing to evangelical voters on poverty, health care and climate change (excuse me, "creation care"). In May of 2008, the founder of Beliefnet predicted that Obama "has a real chance to win substantial evangelical support," since "evangelicals are in a period of de-alignment from the Republican Party."

That prediction didn't fare so well. John McCain won 73 percent of the evangelical vote, a higher share than the born-again George W. Bush in 2000. According to a survey for the Faith and Freedom Coalition conducted by Public Opinion Strategies, 32 percent of all voters in 2010 were Christian conservatives, and 72 percent of them voted Republican. Voters of faith helped the GOP gain 63 seats and control of the House, and helped elect new governors like John Kasich in Ohio, Scott Walker in Wisconsin, and Nikki Haley in South Carolina.

2008 Presidential Election demographics, footnoted and annotated
Your "by the numbers" breakdown of the 2008 vote, with emphasis on the religious voter (as of 04/07/09):

xx% McCain, 23% Obama - White Evangelicals age 30-64¹¹
75% McCain, 25% Obama - White^7,10 Born Again^5,10,12 Evangelicals^1,8,10,12
73% McCain, 26% Obama - Evangelical/Born-again Protestant¹⁴
xx% McCain, 32% Obama - White Evangelicals age 18-29¹¹
65% McCain, xx% Obama - Weekly church-attending Protestants⁷
65% McCain, 34% Obama - White Protestants^7,8
65% McCain, 34% Obama - White Protestant/Other Christian¹⁴
62% McCain, 35% Obama - State of Utah³
59% McCain, 40% Obama - Working-class whites¹³
57% McCain, 41% Obama - White men¹³
55% McCain, 43% Obama - Weekly mass-attending Catholics ^6,9
55% McCain, 43% Obama - "White voters" ¹³
55% McCain, 44% Obama - Non-evangelical Protestant¹⁴
54% McCain, 44% Obama - Weekly church-goers^1,4,7,12
54% McCain, 45% Obama - Protestants^6,8
53% McCain, 46% Obama - White women ¹³
52% McCain, 47% Obama - White "regular-mass-attending" Catholics¹²
52% McCain, 47% Obama - White Catholic¹⁴
51% McCain, 47% Obama - White college graduates¹³
xx% McCain, 47% Obama - White independent voters¹³
51% McCain, 49% Obama - White Catholics^1,7,11
46% McCain, 52% Obama - Non-Evangelical Protestants ¹²
46% McCain, 53% Obama - Protestant/Other Christian¹⁴
xx% McCain, 53% Obama - Monthly church-goers ⁴**
44% McCain, 54% Obama - "Young whites"¹³
45% McCain, 54% Obama - Catholics^{1,4,6,8,9,10,11,12}
45% McCain, 54% Obama - Catholic¹⁴
xx% McCain, 59% Obama - Semi-annual church-goers⁴**
38% McCain, 61% Obama - Occasional churchgoers¹
37% McCain, 61% Obama - Non-weekly-mass-attending Catholics^6,12
28% McCain, 62% Obama - Other faiths¹⁴
30% McCain, 67% Obama - Hispanics¹³****
xx% McCain, 67% Obama - Hispanic Catholics^8,11**,***, ****
xx% McCain, 67% Obama - Hispanic Protestants and other Christians¹¹**, ****
xx% McCain, 68% Obama - Don't attend church⁴ **
22% McCain, 73% Obama - Other faiths¹⁴
23% McCain, 75% Obama - Unaffliliated with any religion¹¹
23% McCain, 75% Obama - Unaffliliated¹⁴
21% McCain, 78% Obama - American Jews^2,8,12 and other faiths¹²
21% McCain, 78% Obama - Jewish¹⁴**
xx% McCain, 94% Obama - Black Protestants^11,13**,****
xx% McCain, 96% Obama - Blacks¹³**,****

** No source provided voting percentages for the other party.
*** Associated Press (citation #11) reports this number as 72%, instead of the 67% other media gave it.
**** Note that some media are reporting the same numbers for the Hispanic and Black vote in general, as well as for those same groups with Catholic or Protestant affiliation.
Citations:
¹ The Awesome Blue God -- How Obama Forged A New Faith Coalition
² Exit polls: 78% of Jews voted for Obama
³ Utah's red loses some of its luster
⁴ Obama's Religious Appeal: Still Missing Evangelicals - which TIME renamed as Obama: Bringing (Some) Evangelicals In
⁵ The Evangelical Electoral Map
⁶ What's wrong with Catholic voters? What's wrong with Catholics?
⁷ Evangelical Voters Favor McCain by Wide Margins
⁸ Catholic voters heavily favored Obama, analysis shows
⁹ What Happened to the Catholic Vote?
¹⁰ Loyal to the End: Evangelicals Stay the Course
¹¹ Obama results show gains in key religious voters
¹² How the faithful voted
¹³ Exit polls: How Obama won
¹⁴ Pew Forum - How The Faithful Voted

All numbers cited above are the earliest ones reported in the press. In cases of multiple reports, some percentages cited were not exact. However, the numbers above are within 2% of all sources cited, lending credence to the general number & placement overall.

Other resources:
With the Help of Catholics…Obama’s Victory
Results! Evangelicals
Mainline Protestants and Latino evangelicals surge toward Obama [pre-election article]
Poll: Latino Protestants switching back to Democrats this election [pre-election article]
The Hispanic Protestant swing vote [pre-election article]
America spoke
Believers in the Pews--and the Polling Booth
McCain Beats Bush on Evangelical Vote

[Darren McCarty]

This is due to one word. Abortion.

I'm not evangelical. I'm a conservative Catholic, although knows a lot of Evangelicals. All of them have different views on different issues, and even disagree sometimes on social issues, at least to the solutions to the problem.

The question is this. Is killing babies in the womb legal murder? Specifically, murder for convenience. It's a rhetorical question. It's not surprising that those who are of any active religious persuasion, and even some atheists for that matter who respect life, have a hard time voting for a candidate who support the legalization of murder for convenience. That's unacceptable, and all of Obama's talk about being religious does not change the fact that he supported murder for convenience up to nine months.

[editor-surveyor]

This only works if we all go to the polls, and that requires a candidate that is worth going to the polls for.

Should Perry or Romney get in, we’ll be McCained again; people will sit out the election is significant numbers.

[editor-surveyor]

This only works if we all go to the polls, and that requires a candidate that is worth going to the polls for.

Should Perry or Romney get in, we’ll be McCained again; people will sit out the election in significant numbers.

[metmom]

Imagine that.....

[Mariner]

"Voters of faith helped the GOP gain 63 seats and control of the House, and helped elect new governors like John Kasich in Ohio, Scott Walker in Wisconsin, and Nikki Haley in South Carolina. "

Voters of faith have ALSO helped elect innumerable democrats.

While "Christian Conservatives" voted 73% for McCain in 2008..."Christian Liberals" voted in equal or more numbers for Obama.

Ralph Reed is spouting a selective truth in this article. He is being selective to promote the lie that Christians vote overwhelmingly GOP.

A more accurate measure would be, at least, to break down the statistics as to what percentages of Protestants and Catholics vote for the two parties. Catholics vote more democrat...and Protestants only slightly more GOP.