[Colofornian]

Romney won the South Carolina GOP vote among voters who said they didn't consider "much" (or "not at all") the religious beliefs of the candidate...

Per CNN Exit polls (see: EXIT POLLS: South Carolina), that tally was 39% Romney; 32% Gingrich; 16% Paul; 8% Santorum.

But you know, 80 percent of South Carolina voters were Protestants...and the 2010 nation-wide election brought out over 1/3rd of ALL votes from white Evangelicals/born agains...and of this last group, 44% went Gingrich; 22% went Romney; 21% went Santorum per CNN.

[Salvation]

You might be interested in these numbers.

[muawiyah]

Currently Newt and Rick are Catholics. So 40% of the Evangelical vote went for Catholic candidates?

Or what is it this analysis is trying to get to.

[ReneeLynn]

Poppycock.

[SENTINEL]

Congratulations Freeper and Inmans, we may have have just stopped the cult from taking over a second third of our national government.

[2ndDivisionVet]

How much of the Zoroastrian, Muslim, Wiccan and Buddhist vote did each candidate get?

[ari-freedom]

If the mormon was pro-life and against the gay lifestyle and the others were pro-gay/pro-abortion and people still voted against the conservative Mormon then that would be a problem.

But this is not the case here.

[Graybeard58]

Two days ago on the religion forum we had a character saying that S.C. had bigoted anti Catholics who would not vote for a Catholic. According to these figures, protestants voted for Newt (Catholic) in greater percentage that self identified Catholics did.

I’m not Catholic but Newt has my vote. Romney? Never! Of course religion matters and I’ll vote for The Christian any day as opposed to the Mormon. I couldn’t possibly vote for a man that believes all that mormon hokum.

[FishinTX]

I’m in the “5 out of every 3 people don’t understand percentages” group.

[One Name]

Mormonism is an important issue to “Christians”, who ostensibly are still quite important.

The unchurched don’t know it from Marsupialism.

One is no more or less condemned whether they be an unbeliever, as many politicians are, or a cultist.

I personally still evaluate them on their faith; if they’re wrong about the Truth, what else are they deceivecd about?

As for Gingrich, there is that flawed vessel thing, like Samson, etc.

[Big Horn]

Newt never made a issue of religion, but it hurt Mitts father when he ran. I think we have a muzzy now.

[Sybeck1]

Will Utah vote Catholic? Just wondering.

[reaganaut]

I wish they had included LDS as a separate category. I am curious how many LDS voted for Romney, Gingrich, Santorum and Paul respectively.

[bramps]

It’s why Mitt doesn’t want his taxes released. It would disclose the millions and millions of dollars that Mitt has tithed to the Mormon church. And Mitt will have problems when voters then look at the tenets of Mormons.

[Salvation]

13 percent of South Carolina voters identified themselves as Roman Catholic. Their vote breakdown was:

* 29% Romney;

This is sickening to me.

[Salvation]

13 percent of South Carolina voters identified themselves as Roman Catholic. Their vote breakdown was:

* 29% Romney;

This is sickening to me.

[Vendome]

I was watching CNN as they described these numbers and the whole thing is a crock.

No one gives a damn about Mutt’s religion when they examine his record.

The man is a one trick pony.

One success in business and one term as a governor.

other than that he has been a veritable loser when running for any office.

Mutt:
Your guys faked the results in Iowa. You are a cheat and if it wasn’t you it’s your team and you the leader of that hideous hydra.

Santorum won.

You couldn’t even muster a majority in New Hampshire that was much above what your floor support levels are.

Lame.

South Carolina - Your guys have been paying everyone to go on TV and proclaim you the de facto winner. Your supporters in various news organizations fail to reveal their support for you is a direct result of sharing the same faith.

Think about that. They can’t be honest with themselves to say they are LDS but, they are all to happy to whine about how you aren’t getting any respect because of your religion.

Really?

Barrack Hussein Obama got elected with a very oddball and outright racist pastor but you are getting your clock cleaned for merely being a Mormon?

Get real.

You are getting your clock cleaned because you don’t stand for anything and you are generally full of shit.

Go ahead Mitt, tell me point blank where you stand and then let me test that stance with a follow up question.

There should be no perceived equivocation, evasion of mind in yourself. You ought to be understood crystal clear and you aren’t.

You are a parser and I’m going to name a herb after you.

I won’t eat it because I’ll never know what I’m eating.

[AlexW]

You REALLY trust CNN, the Commie News Network?
That being asked, just what is it that puts a curse on Mormons?
Is it something like being a Wicken, or a devil worshiper?
I don’t think so.

By the way, I am NOT a Romney bot

[Aria]

I don’t like the theory that Mitt was defeated because of his religion. Gee..we have an incompetent (thank God) muslim half-black, traitor communist POTUS. Isn’t it obvious that what we really want is someone who can shred zero, flush him down the garbage disposal and then get this country back to where it belongs?

To me Mitt’s religion has not one thing to do with it.

[Between the Lines]

If you go look at the rest of the poll you will see that those who think that abortion should be illegal were almost exactly the same percent and voted for Romney/Gingrich in the same percentages as those who thought religion to be important.

Could it possibly be that this isn’t about Mormonism but abortion instead?

[willk]

So the majority responding to this post seem to agree a good reason to vote against Mitt was his religion? Even if it meant voting for someone who is just as much a “RINO”? Even if it meant voting for a serial adulterer?