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The following poll reported over at HughHewitt.com has some interesting things going on:
McClatchy Newspapers reported: “Romney led McCain by 2 to 1 among voters who ranked the economy and jobs their top concern. He led Huckabee by a slightly greater margin among those voters. He also led McCain by 2 to 1 among likely voters who called themselves Republicans.”
The analysis continued: “McCain owes his solid standing to independents and Democrats, taking 38 percent of their support, while Huckabee had 22 percent and Romney had 18 percent. ... Evangelical Christians represented 46 percent of the likely primary vote in the poll, and Huckabee got 31 percent of their support while Romney got 23 percent.” Now, here's what's interesting... First, almost half of Republicans in Michigan claim to be Evangelical Christians. Second, Huckabee is only getting 31% of their support. And third, Romney, a Mormon, is getting 23% of their support. The media has been saying that Evangelical Christians are flocking to Huckabee in droves because he is one of them. Implying that evangelical Christians will vote for anyone, regardless of his stands on the issues as long as he is an Evangelical Christian. Well, apparently not. Also, secular liberals have cried foul all throughout the Bush years claiming that Evangelicals want to establish an American Evangelical theocracy. We have to ask, if that's the case, why did only 31% of Evangelicals vote for the only Evangelical in the Michigan primary? You can hardly establish an evangelical Christian theocracy with a Mormon at the top of the ticket! In Michigan two thirds of evangelical Christians stayed away from Mike Huckabee indicating that they also value a candidate's position on the issues and that they didn't agree with him on many of them. For those who say Evangelicals only care that the president is one of them, or that they want to shove a theocracy down the throat of America, this is one piece of evidence that at least in Michigan, nothing could be further from the truth. We'll watch to see how Evangelicals in other states break down.
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