Political support for each candidate in 2012, as indicated by denomination. Some very good news here for Obama.

Courtesy of the Maddow Blog: 

There's a fair amount of interesting data here, though the results among Roman Catholic voters are arguably the most electorally significant. In every recent cycle, Catholics have been considered a key swing constituency, particularly throughout Midwest battleground states, and President Obama narrowly won their support, 50% to 48%. It suggests Republicans' efforts to focus on contraception and reproductive rights had limited success, and the Bishops' lobbying largely fell on deaf ears. 

Also note, while many on the right hoped 2012 would be the year that Jewish voters abandoned Democrats, that didn't come close to happening. Though Obama fared slightly worse among Jewish voters as compared to 2008, he still enjoyed overwhelming support. 

For the purposes of classification, "Other faiths" became a catch-all for a variety of minority religious traditions -- Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, and others -- which on their own represent a very small percentage of the voting population. Their support for the GOP remains dismal. 

And continue to keep an eye on the religiously unaffiliated -- one of the fastest growing segments of the faith population -- which includes atheists, agnostics, and theists who choose not to associate with any specific tradition. Their lopsided support for Obama reinforces yet another demographic problem for Republicans in the coming years.

I cannot tell you how happy I am to see these numbers. 

After all of the attempts to paint this President as the freaking Anti-Christ it is comforting to see that only a handful of the MOST ignorant Fundamentalist bought into that rhetoric.

I actually believe that if the Republican candidate had NOT been a fellow Mormon that Obama might have had much more support from that denomination/cult as well.

And would you take a look at that unaffiliated number. Now that puts a huge smile on my face. Especially since it represents one of the fastest growing demographics in the country.

And if that was NOT enough to make your day there is also this courtesy of the New York Times:

“Millions of American evangelicals are absolutely shocked by not just the presidential election, but by the entire avalanche of results that came in,” R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, in Louisville, Ky., said in an interview. 

“It’s not that our message — we think abortion is wrong, we think same-sex marriage is wrong — didn’t get out. It did get out. “It’s that the entire moral landscape has changed,” he said. “An increasingly secularized America understands our positions, and has rejected them.”  
 
That is literally music to my ears. I visualize a day when candidates will simply keep their religious beliefs to themselves, and avoid discussing their opinions on social issues altogether, for fear of alienating the huge agnostic/atheist voting block that will gain predominance in this country. I only hope I live long enough to see it.