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It’s a campaign in which pastors cause controversy and Democrats compete for religious votes. The latest exit polls from North Carolina and Indiana’s primaries yesterday show where religiously-minded voters cast their vote.
CATHOLICS: Obama made gains among Catholics, a group he’s struggled to win and heavily lost in past primaries. According to First Read, he went from losing 70-30% in Pennsylvania and 63%-36% in Ohio, to finally narrowing it to 59%-41% in Indiana. The campaign boasts, “Barack Obama is building one of the largest grassroots campaigns of people of faith in history.” Doug Kmiec, who stirred the Catholic community with his endorsement of Obama, reiterated and explained his support:
I believe that my faith calls upon me at this time to focus on new efforts and untried paths to reduce abortion practice in America. Senator Obama’s emphasis on personal responsibility, rather than legal bickering over potential Supreme Court nominations in my judgment, best moves this issue forward.
WRIGHT: Rev. Jeremiah Wright had a mixed effect. Nearly half the voters in both primaries said the issue was important to their vote. In Indiana, 71% of the voters who said the issue was important went for Clinton, and 67% of the voters who said it wasn’t important went for Obama. In North Carolina, however, Obama won more votes from people who said the issue wasn’t important (72%) than Clinton did among those who considered it important (57%), the Associated Press reports. There was some speculation that Obama’s renunciation of Wright would dent his monolithic support from black voters, but 9 in 10 black voters cast their vote for him.
RELIGIOUS VOTERS: When it came to the religious vote, Obama branched out a bit from his secular base. Among religious voters in Indiana, Obama won both the voters who attend church more than weekly (55-45%) and the voters who never attend church (52-48%), while Clinton won overall occasional attenders (54%-46%) and Protestant voters. In North Carolina, Obama won both weekly attenders (55-43%) and occasional attenders (59-39%), along with his usual secular voters.
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Don’t blame racism
Here’s what I think happened: he worked for the vote. There is a lot of evidence that Obama is ready learner, which is to say he is somebody who will adapt to new realities. That is a powerful tool for an executive — at the least means that conservatives might get a hearing from an Obama administration.
If elected he might surprise us one and all with a domestic Nixon to Red China breakthrough inconsistent with his prior record.
But somehow I doubt it.
All the candidates seem to see connecting with religious values voters as something to be dusted off every 4 years like an old jacket. Then when no longer needed hung back up.
Personally Sawgunner, I have come to the conclusion that both political parties pander to voters like a salesman tries to manipulate his customer into purchasing a product he does not want or need. Democrats pander to their extremist leftist allies like Peter E. Lewis and George Soros, and Republicans pander to Christians. Then when both get into office, they seem to conveniently forget anything they campaigned on.
It is so very comforting to know that there are ‘religious’ people out there who would vote for a candidate who 100% supports butchering full-term healthy children outside of the womb, by the expedient of delivering them and then sticking a sharp object into their brain - and he wants YOU to be forced to pay for it, too.
I understand sacrificing children to Moloch was ‘religious’, as well.
So maybe these are the ‘religious folks’ Obama is getting to vote for him.
Just like he is getting the Hamas vote and the ‘God Da-m America’ crowd, as well.
And, oh yeah. He also has locked up the vote from the enlightened demographic group that wears their pants around their knees and thinks Atlanta is a state and thinks Robert E. Lee was a general during the Second World War.
Right on Drill!