Posted on 10/20/2020 7:31:56 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Most likely voters who identify as Roman Catholic support Democratic nominee Joe Biden, despite the Democrat’s positions on abortion and religious freedom. At just over one-fifth of the population, Catholics form a pivotal voting bloc. An important new poll from EWTN and RealClearPolitics shows Trump at an immense disadvantage, but it also highlights three issues where the president can make up some ground on his opponent in this crucial voting bloc.
First, the bad news: Self-identified Catholics prefer Biden (52 percent) to Trump (40 percent) nationwide. Fifty-nine percent of Catholics say they prefer Biden’s temperament to that of Trump, while only 33 percent prefer Trump’s temperament. More than half (53 percent) say they agree with Biden’s policies, while only 41 percent said they agree with Trump’s. More Catholics also disapprove (53 percent) than approve (47 percent) of Trump’s performance as president.
Worse, more of the Catholics in the EWTN/RCP sample said they voted for Trump (48 percent) than for Hillary Clinton (46 percent) in the 2016 presidential election.
Catholics form a somewhat representative sample of the American population as a whole. The EWTN/RCP sample included 1,490 Catholics, 60 percent white, about a third Hispanic or Latino, and three percent black. The poll revealed major political gaps along the lines of race, age, and religious observance. White Catholics, older Catholics, and more observant Catholics favored Trump more.
The poll also highlighted three issues where Trump can make up some ground in the race against Biden.
While the Roman Catholic Church officially condemns abortion, self-identified Catholics have a broad range of opinions on the issue.
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Fake News!
The RCP poll is a joke. Take 10 fake polls and make it into one.
A “self-identified Catholic” who votes for Biden will burn in Hell for all eternity.
Put the word out at your church.
I’ve been watching Catholic voters in a Catholic town for a long time.
Sadly they will always vote perceived self-interest, generally rooted in a myth (Democrats is FO DA WORKIN’ MAN!) over Church moral teachings every time.
With Bishops doing virtually NOTHING to counter it (like oh, say...a formal statement that it would be A MORTAL SIN to elect a man who supports tax funded late-term abortions).
It depends on the race of the Catholic
Yes it comes down to that
A slight majority of white Catholics vote R now
Other Catholics except Vietnamese and older Cubans...no
Most Catholics ...aside from here ....that I know don’t practice ...so this whole deal seems like a non starter
Very little leadership from Catholic bishops and priests on this.
They should be shouting about the Church’s position on moral issues.
But, with few exceptions, they are weak sauce.
They’re not - and I say this as a 3rd gen Irish Catholic New Yorker- they’re not voting for Catholic values. Theyre not consulting the catechism or catholic teaching They’re not thinking about the Bible or how Jesus came into the world the day the angel appeared to Mary and life begins at conception as gospel truth.
They’re not saying, “sweet Jesus, what Is God’s will. Guide me.” They’re saying, I’m a democrat like my father was, like my aunt, my grandmother, my brother- (who would beat me up if he knew I voted republican)...”
A “self-identified Catholic” who votes for Biden will burn in Hell for all eternity.
Put the word out at your church.”
We try. Most Catholics who vote Biden don’t go to church.
They could repent before death.
Weak sauce?
No, the lower echelon have received orders from above that originate in Rome. Trump is our enemy, of the world, and of the Church
Check of Catholic Rev Ed Meeks on Biden and the Dems on You Tube. Very enlightening.
Could happen, I suppose, but how many “liberal Catholics” have repented for voting for Beelzebubba?
“Most Catholics who vote Biden don’t go to church.”
Good point. Satan is clever.
I’m not an optimist, but I pray for the virtue of hope.
It’s been said that optimism is true moral courage.
I wouldn’t know.
“Optimism is a matter optics, of seeing what you want to see and not seeing what you don’t want to see. Hope, on the other hand, is a Christian virtue. It is the unblinking acknowledgment of all that militates against hope, and the unrelenting refusal to despair. We have not the right to despair, and, finally, we have not the reason to despair”
Fr. Richard John Neuhaus
“Fr. Richard John Neuhaus”
I loved that guy. Had the privilege of speaking to him on the phone once.
He seemed like a good guy.
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