[Ken H]

Exit polls say 26 percent of American voters called themselves evangelical or born-again Christians, and of these, 74 percent voted for McCain, with 25 percent voting for Obama.

http://blog.christianitytoday.com/ctpolitics/2008/11/the_evangelical.html

That's nearly 8,000,000 Obama votes.

[LifeComesFirst]

I imagine a lot of those votes were from black church goers. Many black people I talk to have this Catholic, works-oriented attitude towards faith. They can have kids out of wedlock, all kinds of sin, etc., so long as they are in that church every Sunday they are saved. No, lurking DUers, that’s not a stereotype, that’s an observation based on my experience, so go argue with my experience if you don’t like it.

Anyway, many people are personally against abortion but support keeping it legal. This attitude wouldn’t withstand five minutes of scrutiny, but there you have it. Tyranny of the status quo.