I talked to a Catholic friend who planned to vote for Obama. I tried numerous times to talk her out of it, but she said even though she wouldn’t have an abortion, she wouldn’t feel right about keeping someone else from getting one, and that God would judge them for what they did. I mentioned adoption as an alternative to abortion because her grandson was adopted as a baby...but that didn’t work either. She’s a faithful Mass goer, but I couldn’t get through.
On the other hand, our pastor spoke fervently and frequently about why we must vote with the party of pro-life, pro-Israel, and anti-gay marriage, and yet there are folks in our church that I know voted for Obama. Their reasoning was not logical, nor Biblical. They were beyond convincing saying Jesus would have stood with the poor, and that was what Obama wanted to do...they didn’t care that the Dems advocated killing babies...just weird and a bit surreal when talking to them.
These people seem incapable of observing (perhaps because they watch ABC News) that Obama never goes anywhere near the poor, choosing instead to associate only with the very, very rich. And I'm sure they didn't see the statistic that no more than 1/3 of "poverty" spending goes to the poor, with the rest going to program administration (and graft).
There's one in my prayer group. As near as I can tell, she thinks everyone should be protected from any negative consequences of their decisions, and that the government will do this with "compassion." (Her example is a brother and sister-in-law who don't have health insurance because they bought a big house and a boat, when their business was doing well.)
The fact that Obama is enthusiastically pro-abortion doesn't seem to matter, even though her own son is adopted.