Huckabee is Choice of Born-Again Republicans!
Republican Turnout Was Low, But Born-Again or Evangelical Christians Represented Sixty Percent of All Republican Votes
Washington Post, Jan 4th
DES MOINES — Just as the Republican caucuses began on Thursday at 6:30 p.m., a small group of women and children joined hands in the middle of the ballroom at Mike Huckabee’s headquarters here and began to pray for his election.
Mr. Huckabee, a former Baptist minister, rode a crest of evangelical Christian support to victory on Thursday over his rival Mitt Romney, capping a remarkable ascent over the last two months from near the bottom of the Republican field. A poll of people entering the Republican caucuses on Thursday showed more than 8 in 10 of his supporters identified themselves as evangelicals.
The same surveys showed extraordinary turnout among evangelicals, who represented some 60 percent of Republican caucusgoers. In years past, Republican Party leaders in Iowa put evangelical turnout at about 40 percent.
One note of caution is that Republican evangelicals taken as a group are only a small portion of the overall votes that will be counted in November. Having a “one note” candidate is not a good recipe for electoral success noted several gleeful Democratic observers. Click here to read more in the Washington Post.