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Well now, that's interesting. If you subtract the black vote from the Evangelical total, AND subtract the Hispanic vote from the Catholic total, what do you get?

A big difference is that protestants have only voted democrat 3 times, in 1932, 1936, and 1964, while the Catholic vote before 1972, had never gone republican, or according to many, did go republican once, in 1956.

We are in the glory days of Catholic voting republican, it will return to it's permanent democrat loyalties soon, or it already has. The Hispanic vote also splits between the Protestant Hispanic vote, and the Catholic Hispanic vote.

Protestant Hispanics are in play, and have been voting close to 50/50 republican.

You've got a good point there. Protestant Hispanics trend more conservative than Catholic Hispanics.

Here's another fact that caught my attention: traditional marriage significantly out-performed the GOP ticket in all four very liberal, very Democratic states where it was on the ballot.

In other words, the traditional marriage issue did not pull down Romney/Ryan. If they had been bigger traditional marriage supporters, it would have pulled them up. They could have even, inspired and coaxed to the polls some of the HUGE number of conservative Evangelicals (white and Latino) who DIDN'T VOTE.

That's at least 10 million.

That's the elephant in the room that people aren't talking about.

That's the "dog that didn't bark".