Sentences with phrase «evangelicals support romney»

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Another way of cutting the evangelical electorate is to say that 86 % supported someone other than Romney and 85 % didn't choose a Mormon.

I know Romney performed better than McCain among evangelicals, but I still think it's much easier for the Republican Party to win a presidential election with a candidate with fervent evangelical support (this requires the rather delicate trick of not scaring the daylights out of everyone else in the country).

The day the Evangelicals started supporting the Liberal Romney and his satanic religion of Mormonism they ceased to be Christians.

In Iowa, CNN entrance polls show that born - again or evangelical Christians supported Santorum, a Catholic, well over Romney.

There's been much speculation about whether white evangelicals, who have accounted for more than a third of Republican votes in recent elections, will turn out in force for Mitt Romney, a Mormon who for years supported abortion and gay rights.

Editor's note: David French is a constitutional lawyer, veteran of the Iraq war and the co-author (most recently) of «Why Evangelicals Should Support Mitt Romney (And Feel Good about It!).»

Before the election, many evangelical leaders predicted that opposition to Obama over his support for abortion rights, his personal endorsement of same - sex marriage and his vision of government as a force for good would trump reservations evangelicals had about Romney's past social liberalism and his Mormon faith.

Evangelicals overwhelmingly supported Rick Santorum over Romney in the Iowa caucuses, helping Santorum squeeze out a slight victory in the final count.

«At that time, nearly three - quarters of white evangelical Protestant registered voters said they planned to vote for Romney, including one - quarter who «strongly» supported him.

In choosing a running mate who is Catholic, Romney showed that he is not worried about damaging support among Protestants, «especially those who don't think of themselves as evangelicals,» Galston said.

With strong evangelical support, Santorum went on to win primaries and caucuses in 11 states, even as Romney racked up more than twice as many delegates.

Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum, who rode evangelical support to victory in the first - in - the - nation Iowa caucuses earlier this month, each got 21 % of the evangelical vote in South Carolina.

Elect Voters At the outset of his thoughtful «The Evangelical Voter» (February), John G. West complains that the Romney campaign did not do more to cultivate Evangelical support while it did establish «outreach groups» for Catholics and Jews.

While there are plenty of legitimate policy reasons that evangelicals might support Governor Romney, their willingness to overlook their desire for a coreligionist candidate may also have at least something to do with the fact that 24 % of them — higher than any other religious group — believe Obama is a Muslim, and even more are unaware (or unconvinced?)

I'd like to get behind Rick Santorum and give him my solid support, but until he's more open about all the stimulus that has gone into his package, we won't know for sure that he's a real Republican and a true evangelical Christian like the rest of them, no matter how oral he gets on Romney.

In Mississippi, where white evangelicals accounted for 80 % of the vote, Romney got 29 % evangelical support, compared with 35 % for Santorum and 32 % for Gingrich.

This article was written purely to keep any Obama supporting evangelicals that were leaning left, from voting for Romney.

Some prominent evangelical pastors have been telling their constituents not to support Mitt Romney's bid for the presidential nomination.

My comment was more ironically intended and reflected the very staged fund / support raising meeting between Rev. Graham and then - candidate Mitt Romney that was orchestrated by Franklin Graham to sway evangelicals who might have historically viewed Mormonism as a cult.

Last night was no exception: we covered topics ranging from the politics of Obama's gay marriage support to the changing demographics of North Carolina to the effect of Romney's Mormonism on evangelical voters, with plenty more in between.

This is in contrast with white, non-Hispanic evangelical Protestant registered voters, among whom a solid majority supports Romney (74 %).