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 54 million Evangelical Christian people did not vote? |
Eddie Robbins |
| I don't know if this is true but someone wrote that Ted Cruz and Sean Hannity were discussing this last night. 54 million Evangelical Christians didn't vote in the last presidential election. You tell me....what is my question when I hear this? |
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1/28/16 3:14 pm
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| Re: 54 million Evangelical Christian people did not vote? |
UncleJD |
| Eddie Robbins wrote: | | I don't know if this is true but someone wrote that Ted Cruz and Sean Hannity were discussing this last night. 54 million Evangelical Christians didn't vote in the last presidential election. You tell me....what is my question when I hear this? |
They left out the fact that at the same time 54 million dead voters turned out to vote as well. 
I remember that stat (or close to it), during/after the last 2 elections. It was worse after Romney supposedly because of his Mormon faith, but most likely it was due to the fact that he didn't energize them enough to go and vote. I nearly didn't because I thought how are we going to trust a guy to repeal something that he pretty much modeled (Obamacare), or trust a guy to be a conservative that won a popular election in a notoriously liberal state?
Bottom line is that if anyone (Trump, Cruz, Rubio, anyone) could convince these people to get off the couch, the election would be turned on that. Surely a vast majority of evangelicals would vote for the most conservative of the two if they would actually do it. |
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1/28/16 3:22 pm
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Eddie Robbins |
| My question is.....how do they know who voted and what religion they are? My other question is....if we had 54 million true Evangelical Christians in this country, we wouldn't be in the mess we're in, would we? |
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1/28/16 3:32 pm
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UncleJD |
| Eddie Robbins wrote: | | My question is.....how do they know who voted and what religion they are? My other question is....if we had 54 million true Evangelical Christians in this country, we wouldn't be in the mess we're in, would we? |
I won't pretend to know, but I know a few in my own circles and I'm sure everyone does, who stayed home because either he was Mormon or he was a liberal Yankee.
54million is only about 22% of the country. I read that there are around 100 million evangelicals in the US, so that would indicate half of them stayed home!
I wish 100% of evangelicals acted like they say they believe, then you're right we could not be in this mess. |
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1/28/16 3:41 pm
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Eddie Robbins |
| One shouldn't be considered an evangelical unless they have evangelized. You get my point? Call them "Christians," not Evangelical Christians. If there were 100 million evangelists in this country.......... |
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1/28/16 3:56 pm
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Quiet Wyatt |
'Evangelical' does not have the same definition as 'evangelistic.' One should lead to the other, but they don't mean the same thing.
Also, 'evangelical' includes millions of African-American Baptists and Pentecostals, pretty much all of whom voted for Obama, so it's not clear that getting out the evangelical vote alone would be all that helpful for the GOP. |
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1/28/16 4:16 pm
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Cojak |
| Eddie Robbins wrote: | | My question is.....how do they know who voted and what religion they are? ... |
Very good question. I am sure it is a sampling survey, but who did it and the criteria used.
And also I must point out......"THAT MIGHT BE EVANGEISTICALLY SPEAKING!" 
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UncleJD |
| Quiet Wyatt wrote: | 'Evangelical' does not have the same definition as 'evangelistic.' One should lead to the other, but they don't mean the same thing.
Also, 'evangelical' includes millions of African-American Baptists and Pentecostals, pretty much all of whom voted for Obama, so it's not clear that getting out the evangelical vote alone would be all that helpful for the GOP. |
I think the assumption is that the ones who stayed home would be in the conservative camp and chose not to vote. I know an entire church in my area that for the most part chose not to vote because they were told by their pastor that Romney believed that slavery was a curse for being black brought on by Ham in Genesis (yes it was a Hispanic church, but they are conservative Pentecostals who voted for Bush) |
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1/28/16 5:21 pm
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| Way things are looking this year... |
Mark Ledbetter |
it may be 54 million and one not voting.
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