Exit polls show white evangelical voters voted in high numbers for Donald Trump, 81-16 percent,

That's pretty amazing. Did evangelicals vote overwhelmingly for Trump because they are, in fact, sheep who are easily led (and conned)? Are they naturally drawn to the authoritarian father figure? Do evangelicals really believe that Trump is going to do their bidding? Sam Harris thinks we just elected the first atheist as president.

Whatever. I post this here just to say hi! I have studiously avoided most TV and reporting after the election. There are many more important things in life besides politics, like family, children, fishing, gardening, stargazing, surfing, birdwatching, making pottery, reading a good book. We just bought a home on South Padre Island, Texas and we will be relocating there from Houston in the next couple of months. We. Can't Wait. Life will go on, but I'm turning my back on politics, for now.

I thought I knew America. What did I know?

Franklin Graham: The media didn’t understand the ‘God-factor’ in Trump’s win

Evangelist Franklin Graham said that prayer — and God’s answer to it — helped Donald Trump and Mike Pence pull off “the biggest political upset of our lifetime.”

Graham, president of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and Samaritan’s Purse, said he has traveled across the United States this year, holding prayer meetings at each state capitol. “I could sense going across the country that God was going to do something this year,” Graham told The Washington Post. “And I believe that at this election, God showed up.”

On Thursday, a day after Trump was elected to become the nation’s 45th president, Graham said God had answered their prayers. “Did God show up?” he wrote on Facebook. “In watching the news after the election, the secular media kept asking ‘How did this happen?’ ‘What went wrong?’ ‘How did we miss this?’ Some are in shock. Political pundits are stunned. Many thought the Trump/Pence ticket didn’t have a chance. None of them understand the God-factor.”

As The Washington Post’s Sarah Pulliam Bailey reported:

Exit polls show white evangelical voters voted in high numbers for Donald Trump, 81-16 percent, according to exit poll results. That’s the most they have voted for a Republican presidential candidate since 2004, when they overwhelmingly chose President George W. Bush by a margin of 78-21 percent. Their support for Trump will likely be seen as part of the reason the GOP candidate performed unexpectedly well in Tuesday’s election, according to Five Thirty Eight.

Evangelical leaders from the religious right — including Pat Robertson, Tony Perkins and Ralph Reed — stood by Trump during a heated election season.