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Tuesday January 15, 2008
Winning Michigan, Romney Also Wins Evangelicals
Tonight's exit polls out of Michigan, where Mitt Romney has been projected to be the easy victor, show that he won evangelical voters in a bare plurality, his first victory among that group in this cycle. A Michigan native son, Romney took 32-percent of evangelical votes, compared to 31-percent for Mike Huckabee and 22-percent for John McCain. This is what Romney's strategy envisioned from the start: cobbled-together victories built on big slices of religious conservatives and GOP establishment voters.
Huckabee, by contrast, raised more questions about his national viability with his third-place finish in the Wolverine State. Though he campaigned hard there in recent days, Huck managed to win only 8-percent of non-evangelical voters, who made up 60-percent of the electorate.
Filed Under: casting stones, evangelicals, John McCain, Michigan, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney
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Clearly Donny means "Evangelical Christian." I doubt he'd be thrilled were Romney were to become a Roman Catholic, and I think most in the Romney camp would be upset were he to become anything other than what he is. Anyways, I'm just glad that these voters don't seem to be using as much of a religious test -- just like Huckabee won largely because of the Evangelical vote in Iowa, I'm hoping Romney doesn't win in Utah because of the LDS vote. I mean, as a Mormon, that'd just be a little embarrassing. If he wins because he is the best candidate (and being a Dem myself, well...), that'd be fine, but voting for a candidate for no other reason than because he/she shares the voter's religion is just as bad as not voting for said candidate for no other reason than not sharing religious views. In my humble opinion.
Posted by: Billdom | January 16, 2008 10:09 AM
I've always felt the best person to run our country would be a CEO who is successful in business and not a bureaucratic politician. Romney is the best of all the candidates in both parties to tackle the nation's problems and solve them. I hope my fellow Americans will give him that chance. May God continue to bless America. From a 66 year old veteran of two wars.
Posted by: Roger Fligg | January 17, 2008 3:53 PM
All religious people are superstitious, and something happens they blame god and not themselves. I hate that. All religion must be stopped, but christians and jews first. They are most dangerous
Posted by: JS | January 18, 2008 12:43 PM
"All Religion must be stopped.. christians and jews first" Christianity speaks of love and peace and so do Jews.. how do you come to the conclusion that we're dangerous? The biggest danger are people like you who dont believe in anything and try to attack those who believe in God. As for the next president, God appoints all rulers regardless of their personal religous beliefs and whoever he chooses as the next president will be elected according to his will and for his purpose. The true Christian follower doesnt blame God.. If something doesnt go our way so be it.. God has a greater purpose than we could ever imagine. John 3:19 And this is the verdict, that light(Jesus) came into the world and men loved darkness(satan) rather than light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who loves evil hates the light and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. But he who lives by the truth comes into the light so that his deeds may be seen clearly, that they have been done in God!
Posted by: Dave | January 29, 2008 11:03 AM
All reglious people are superstitious and blame God when something goes wrong? That is so far from the truth that I can't believe that you actually think that. Christians and Jews alike never BLAME God for anything that happens. We pray for his strength and wisdom because we probably have made wrong choices and didn't ask God for his help and wisdom. We always know that if something does go wrong God is always with us and will help us through whatever has happened, that we can depend on his forgiveness and love.
It scares me when people think all religion should be stopped. I wonder what the morals of this great country of ours would be without God. Even worse than they seem to be right now and I believe that is because we are trying to leave God out of our schools, public buildings, etc. This country was based on religion and the religion freedom that people enjoyed. Wake up and thank God you were born in a country where we are actually able to say these things without repercussions.
Posted by: Linda | February 1, 2008 8:51 AM
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