Showing the importance of this sector, notes columnist Mark LaRochelle, is the fact that evangelical voters alone comprised 26% of the electorate in last November's contest, and that 78% of these went for the GOP.
By contrast, the supposedly all important Hispanic vote amounted to only 10% of the ballots, of which 71% were for Obama. That works out to roughly 20% of the electorate vs. 7%.
One wonders: Can GOP consultants do math?
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