Romney "according to polls" is leading with Evangelicals

[Aerows]

I love it when I read this shit. Which Evangelicals are they talking about?

He's a damn Mormon, like a Scientologist in a pay to play religion. Nobody is fooled.

Rasmussen must only ask people that say what they want them to say, because nobody I know that is a Deep South Evangelical likes Romney.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

1. Leading in polls with Evangelicals? Does that mean that we now have to be more like Evangelicals?

[Life Long Dem]

2. Religion, Government, and Polls Don't Mix

[freshwest]

6. In theory, not in practice.

[RZM]

3. They don't like Romney, but they like him better than Obama

How many uber-liberal Democrats were thrilled about John Kerry? Not many, from what I remember. Yet they voted for him anyway because they hated the guy in the WH with every bone in their body.

Same thing will happen here.

[tularetom]

8. Racial bigotry beats religious bigotry every time

I think the republicans could run a muslim (a real one) against Obama and if he was white a lot of white religious christian wackos would vote for him.

[cr8tvlde]

16. Yes indeed, a Black Liberal Christian

has two strikes. A White Fundamentalist Muslim, only one strike. And what's even stranger, they will find some verses in the Bible to support it.

[Aerows]

17. Not really

They like Romney less the more they hear about him, that's the funny part. Hell, I live here.

[politicasista]

21. Liberals know how to throw each other under the bus

Thankfully, Obama recognizes Kerry as a good surrogate. They probably wanted Kerry to lose anyway so that Obama would be left to clean up Bush's mess. Their loss, and the Senator's gain.

[cali]

4. Of course he's leading with Evangelicals and leading by a huge margin.

The vast majority of white evangelicals hate Obama far more than they dislike Romney.

[cindyperry2010]

5. They can talk about the polls all they want to

this is the only thing that matters. Do not get complacent go vote

http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/2012/romney-vs-obama-electoral-map

that is all that matters polls are not worth a damn

[freshwest]

7. Doesn't matter if they say they don't like Romney. What they do in the booth is another matter.

That's in private, that's sometimes why polls miss the mark. But as far as evangelicals voting against Obama and marriage equality, yes they will vote for Romney when the chips are down.

Evangelical church members supported Bush and torture when they were polled by shocking margins. They haven't changed their minds even though the person they claim to love was tortured Himself.

There is nothing inconsistent with this and the process of forming a nationalist religion as the GOP has been pushing since the days of Reagan. Religion is a vital part of creating the fascist state, per Mussolini.

This is the minefield Obama is marching through. Many acts of terrorism and assassination are carried out in fits of religious zealotry.

http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2009/04/jesus-wept/202444/

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles_of_faith/2009/05/do_frequent_chu.html

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2009/04/pew-church-goers-like-torture-more/16947/

I've known people like this in the past, no longer attend such churches, but they are still thriving financially, socially and politically. My current churched friends are anti-war and anti-torture and for full rights for all and social justice. But their groups are getting smaller.

That is my real world observation. We ignore them at our peril. Stay strong.

[Aerows]

18. Good points Freshwest,

and I wasn't encouraging anyone to get complacent by any means. I was just pointing out the astounding lack of enthusiasm among evangelical conservatives that I know, which encompasses pretty much my whole family. None of them can stand Romney, and I don't get in the way of them disliking him by any means

[Viva_Daddy]

9. IMO they would vote for Satan himself as long as he was perceived as white and politically

conservative...which he probably is.

[coalition_unwilling]

11. Must be! I've seen God and she's black :) - n/t

[asjr]

10. In some states evangelical is just another word

for racist. Obama could walk on water and they would not vote for him.

[Aerows]

19. Baptist

Baptists have had long standing feuds with Mormons. I'm not getting in the way of the feuds, because frankly, I understand their point. Mormons are glorified Scientologists.

[malaise]

12. Are these the same folks whose ancestors used the said bible to

justify slavery in the US?
Fuck every one of them

[Aerows]

20. Mormons are highly racist

Same folks. They wrote their own bible, though.

[Lil Missy]

13. Good. We don't want them. n/t

[Initech]

14. The evangelical vote should not matter.:

Why in 2012 are we still caring about what a bunch of fundamentalist freaks want to run things? We listened to them in 2000 and 2004 and what did we get? 8 years of Bush - endless war, our education system destroyed, and our economy went completely down the shitter. Not to mention it's given us the Fox News sponsored Tea Party Congress - literally the worst Congress in US history. I think it's way past time we saw the values voters for the untold damage they've done for our country.

[Dawson Leery]

15. They have done irreparable harm.