{"id":16165,"date":"2012-11-01T19:30:10","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T23:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=16165"},"modified":"2012-11-01T19:30:10","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T23:30:10","slug":"the-unmentioned-voter-bloc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=16165","title":{"rendered":"The Unmentioned Voter Bloc"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday Dan Henninger at the Wall Street Journal<\/a> posted an article about an often overlooked voting bloc–the evangelical vote.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

When Mitt Romney<\/a>‘s 2012 candidacy was gaining traction in the primaries, the conventional wisdom instantly conveyed that the evangelical vote, skeptical of Mormonism, would sink him.<\/strong><\/p>\n

What if in Ohio<\/a> next week the opposite is true? There and in other swing states\u2014Wisconsin<\/a>, Iowa<\/a>, North Carolina<\/a>, Florida\u2014the evangelical vote is flying beneath the media’s radar. It’s a lot of voters not to notice. In the 2008 presidential vote, they were 30% of the vote in Ohio, 31% in Iowa and 26% in Wisconsin. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Back in April, the policy director of the Southern Baptist Convention<\/a>, Richard Land<\/a>, predicted that evangelicals in time would coalesce behind Mitt Romney. Yesterday he endorsed Mr. Romney, the first time he has done so for any presidential candidate.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is also interesting that the Reverend Billy Graham has endorsed Governor Romney and is actively supporting him.<\/p>\n

As someone who shares the values of the evangelicals, I cannot understand how anyone who considers themselves an evangelical could vote for Barack Obama<\/a>. President Obama has made his stand on life issues abundantly clear–he supports federally funded abortion, partial birth abortion, and forcing religious organizations to violate their consciences in order to fund his anti-life platform.<\/p>\n

It will be interesting to see if the evangelical voters will bring their values into the voting booth.<\/p>\n

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