Voting in the Deep South

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Originally Posted by Novato

Thank you for your gracious acknowledgement of my apology, true Southern courtesy, not.

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Ironic that you speak of "courtesy."

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Originally Posted by Novato

Thank you for your gracious acknowledgement of my apology, true Southern courtesy, not.

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True "seemingly" apology, NOT.

The next test of the power of the Southern voter to effect change in the election will come with the naming of Mitt's VP pick.

The sway of the South may be so strong that Mitt needs to pick a VP from the South to firm-up his support there with the voters.

Mitt is from the very liberal NorthEast.....thus it seems normal for him to reach out to a different part of the country with the person he picks to run next to him as VP>

we shall see....

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Originally Posted by Billyray

Hey Marvin can you show us where God commands members in the NT church to accept polygamy?

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Old, or new testament.

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Originally Posted by Novato

Hi All:

I must admit to a degree of puzzlement over the results in the Southern portion of the USA regarding the GOP primaries held there. It seems fairly obvious that Mitt Romney will win the eventual nomination, however I find the exit poll results quite fascinating in regard to the 80% of voters who align themselves to EV Christianity.

Since I have been many times in the South, and still remain puzzled by their, seemingly uneducated or uninformed, response to many things, I suppose I should understand the weirdness of their voting trends.

Romney came in third to Santorum & Grinich mostly because of the 80% of EV voters.

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Primary voters are mostly members of different teams....and so the leader that gets his team out the most tends to do the best.
The results of the primary are totally normal, it's nothing to be so shocked about.
You have a strong Christian vote that came out for the people they felt best represented their values.
Both Santorum & Grinich have really reached out to the Christian body of voters...and made a very strong effort to reach out to the pro-Life conservative voter.

Now compare that to what Mitt did?

Mitt ran away from the pro-Life voter.

Mitt made no effort at all to draw closer to the pro-Life voter.

Mitt treated the pro-Life issue as a side issue that he never really wanted to run on.
When later Mitt ran for President I don't think there was even one single pro-Life ad sent out by his campaign in the States where it could have made the difference.

Im my home State that has a very strong pro-Life vote, there was not a single Mitt ad that was pro-life....talk about not firing up your base!

Mitt tried to run on the economy and other complected issues that no one really understands where he was any different than Obama....and he failed to run on the issues that would have won him the election.

What did happen however is that the whole Conservative end of the party has once again showed that unless it has it's voice listened to, the party will never win.
The future has to be with a strong outreach to the conservative Christian voter.....case-closed.

now this time around you may ask yourself why did Trump do so well?...
The answer is found in the fact that Trump brings new people to the party....

all the other guys who were in the primary were always attempting to swing current Republicans to vote for them...
Trump on the other hand played to the non-Republicans...people who have not been involved much with Party doings.......and they are the ones who came into the Party system and supported him..

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Originally Posted by alanmolstad

now this time around you may ask yourself why did Trump do so well?...
The answer is found in the fact that Trump brings new people to the party....

all the other guys who were in the primary were always attempting to swing current Republicans to vote for them...
Trump on the other hand played to the non-Republicans...people who have not been involved much with Party doings.......and they are the ones who came into the Party system and supported him..

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Trump is the reason I have come to understand that many "christians" are christian in name only. They will vote for someone who has cheated on his wife, cheated in his finances, bullied others, makes segregated statements based on race and religion and has put many a small business person under--why? Because he has promised them that even in their uneducated state, just being white and American makes them better than others and that they deserve a better ***. He has not spoken to our better selves, but rather to our worst.

actually, I believe President Trump is going to be the best president we have ever had.

Step by step he is doing what he said he would do....

and, I fully support his efforts to bring this country back to a place where we can be once again proud of our country...

the basic point the guy had when he started this topic is that Christians would not support with their vote a guy who is Catholic if they took their faith serious.


I forget, did the Mormons support Trump or Hillary in the last election?

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Originally Posted by BigJulie

Trump is the reason I have come to understand that many "christians" are christian in name only. They will vote for someone who has cheated on his wife, cheated in his finances, bullied others, makes segregated statements based on race and religion and has put many a small business person under--why? Because he has promised them that even in their uneducated state, just being white and American makes them better than others and that they deserve a better ***. He has not spoken to our better selves, but rather to our worst.

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Who carried Utah again in the last election?