Values Voter Summit 2014 ... > |
Sept. 26, 2014 - Former Gov.
Mike Huckabee
made
a powerful case for those in the audience to register people and help
them get to the polls: "There are over 80 million
self-identified evangelicals in
America. Now, that’s just the people who
call themselves evangelicals. This does
not include many people who would be identified as either mainline
Protestant,
Catholic, many other faiths who really share our basic values. So
we’re now talking about probably over 100
million people.
And Huckabee said: "But I just want to focus for a moment on those who self-identify as evangelicals. Of those 80 million plus, only 40 million of them are even registered to vote. Even registered. Out of the 40 million that are registered to vote, only 20 million will vote during a presidential election. And of the 20 million that will vote during a presidential election, only 10 million of them will vote during an off-year election like this one. And of those who will vote in an off-year election, an even smaller fraction will vote in the primary that gives the candidates that we select from in those off-year elections. "I want to ask you something. What would happen if, instead of half of those voters being registered, 75 percent of them were? And what would happen if, instead of half of them voting, 75 percent of them voted? If 10 more evangelicals had voted in the last presidential election, we would have a different president than the one we have right now."
"As
concerned as I am about who’s answering the phone in the
White House at 3:00 o’clock in the morning, I’m concerned about who’s
answering
the phone at your house when God calls and he says to you, are you fed
up? Will you wake up?
Will you show up? Will you
stand up? Will you pray up?
Will you speak up? And will
you promise to never give up?
"America is not in trouble because of the people who don’t share our values. America’s in trouble because the people who do share our values aren’t showing up." |
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Before his speech, Huckabee did a media availability. The first question had to do with Huckabee's intentions for 2016; he responded by emphasizing the need to focus on 2014. |
A number of familiar figures
accompanied Huckabee including (above) Chip Saltsman, who managed
Huckabee's 2008 presidential campaign, as well as Bob Wickers, who was
lead strategist, pollster, and media consultant on the campaign, and
Alice Stewart. |
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