re: Evangelicals in Republican Party are feeling left out, see no standard-bearer

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Mitt Romney won the independent vote. You think he would have done even better without the evangelical vote?

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Alot of people my age (20 to 30s) don't get it. So I will lay it out as simple as I can:

Regardless of what our generation "thinks", there is a history. Once in this country, we had prayer in our schools. It mattered. From the time prayer was removed from schools, you could draw a time line and see a massive difference in people.

Each decade is a little more left than the one before. That has shifted our country and the voting. The 90s child is left of the 70s.

In the most recent General Social Survey, 26% of Millennial generation respondents said they were unaffiliated, as did 21% of Gen Xers. Among Baby Boomers, 15% were unaffiliated – not significantly different from when they were first measured in the 1970s. And just 10% of the Silent Generation said that they were unaffiliated.

Nearly six-in-ten (59%) Silents favor a smaller government. Boomers (54%) prefer smaller government than bigger government. Generation X is divided about evenly: 47% prefer smaller government. Millennials, by contrast, prefer a bigger government providing more services (56%).

Silents vote more conservative.. 46% It drops each generation.. Millennials... 30%


Over all point, When you say "GREAT!!! get the out, we don't care...better off without the Christian vote", it's actually what you have been getting for the past 8 years. Slowly but surely, it's happening.

1- The silents, and boomers are tired of seeing politicians that don't care about their values.

2- The millennials (born 1981 or later) has simply rejected Faith, God, Bible, and are more Liberal.