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A significant minority of Evangelicals who can't put their hatred of these two groups behind their love of country are too big of part of the conservative base to elect anyone with the "wrong" religion. This means no Romney, Jindal or Eric Cantor, no matter how capable they might be (though a VP slot could be acceptable).

Your religious hatred and bigotry has led you to post an inaccurate claim, evangelicals love Bobby Jindal and they will vote for him in droves, although the Catholics love Obama I think that they would vote for Jindal also but probably not in as high of percentages as Evangelicals

Here is how the conservative vote shakes out.

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Put all your energy into Jindal and see how that goes for you. It would be funny if Jindal becomes Mormon and then what would you do?

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Also, PEW is like snopes or factcheck. They are the same group who claim there are only 12 million illegals in this country.

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Read my post and know what you are talking about before you go flying off the handle. Not all Evangelicals are religious bigots and I never claimed they were. Quite a few have friends who are Mormons, Catholics and Jews. Were it not so, you wouldn't see Jindal carrying the Evangelical areas of northwest Louisania. You wouldn't see a Mormon like Ernest Istook being elected congressman in central Oklahoma and you certainly wouldn't see a Jew like Eric Cantor carrying an Evangelical district in the Richmond suburbs.

I don't generalize about Evangelicals. My comments were aimed specifically about a vocal subgroup within that broad group who can be shepherded by a well-spoken religious bigot like Mike Huckabee.

Fred Thompson was a logical alternative to Mitt Romney and had Huckabee not played the religious bigot card in Iowa, Fred's campaign might have had a chance to get off the ground because it would have slowed what turned into a stampede for McCain.

Your chart, by the way, throws Mormons into a rather unnatural grouping, perhaps because their numbers are so small. Juding by the data in Mormon heavy counties in Utah and Idaho, they went for McCain by a bigger margin than "Weekly Attending White Evangelical Protestants". So I don't see them as a group which conservatives should be gleefully kicking to the curb as some on this forum delight to do.