United States conservative Christians swung towards the candidate their country rejected, with the Republican Mitt Romney picking up a higher percentage of white evangelical voters and those who attend church weekly. Exit polls conducted by NBC and reported by the Pew Forum show that white evangelicals swung to Romney by 6 per cent and weekly church attenders by 4 per cent (more-than-weekly attenders by 7 per cent). They were joined by white Catholics who swung towards Romney by 7 per cent.
“Born again” Evangelical white Christians gave Romney (who is a Morman), the same support they gave George W Bush (reportedly an evangelical) two presidential elections ago, backing him with a 79 per cent of their vote.
This year’s election saw the racial divide in how American Christians vote widen. Hispanic Catholics moved towards Obama, with a swing of 3 per cent. Black Protestants gave Obama 95 per cent of their vote, and a one per cent swing.
More liberal Christians in the “mainline” protestant churches hardly changed their vote from last time with a republican /democrat split of 55/44.
More details: http://www.pewforum.org/Politics-and-Elections/How-the-Faithful-Voted-2012-Preliminary-Exit-Poll-Analysis.aspx
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