I wonder how much the HISPANIC vote attributes to this. Wonder how he did with white Catholics.
[ Hispanic Catholics, under the tutelage of the Catholic left, voted for Obama over Romney 75 to 21. That was up three points from 2008. ]
Oh, here it is. And yet, we hear over and over how this Hispanic Catholics are a natural conservative constituency if we would only grant them amnesty! BS!
THIS white Catholic voted for Romney,but,alas,I’m obviously outnumbered by the folks that live as perpetual victims,whose number-one issue in their lives is more free government goodies,and northeast Catholics that vote for democrats because “John Kennedy was Catholic and he was a democrat,so that means democrats are good!” (I SWEAR that’s how some of them think).
For example:
I have this neighbor who is in her mid-sixties.She is Irish-Catholic, born in raised in South Boston,sent all her kids (that I grew up with) to Catholic schools,and was a lector at our parish for years.
A while back her husband and I were talking about how everywhere we go around here now,we feel like WE’RE in the wrong country because we’re the only two speaking English! I joked “What can we expect when we have someone in the white house that probably wasn’t born here?”
His wife jumped right in,saying how “all those stories on the internet are lies! You can’t believe ANYTHING you see on the internet!” (But then referencing Snopes to defend Obama!)
She went on saying how she believes Obama may not be the best president ever....and he’s BLACK....(she added THAT,I assume,as a back-handed accusation that I only dislike Obama because he’s black!),and went on with her diatribe about how she’s a born-democrat and democrats best represent the values this country was founded on! So I guess the country was founded on the murder of the unborn and gay “marriage”????????
So believe me...THIS Catholic isn’t defending catholics like her AT ALL!
(...and,of course,her husband is a retired UNION sheet metal worker,so naturally after all his complaining HE votes straight democrat,too!)
The "white Catholic" vote went for Romney 56-43. That's not very different from the overall Protestant or the "mainstream Protestant" vote. Latino and Black voters were heavily for Obama, and White Evangelicals heavily for Romney. I put "white Catholic" in quotes because as the government keeps telling us, "Hispanics can be of any race."
According to reuters -
Hispanic Catholics were far more likely to favor Obama - by 76 percent to 23 percent - than white Catholics, who favored Romney by 56 percent to 43 percent,
In addition -
The Pew survey found that among those voters who attend services once a week or more, 59 percent went for Romney, while 39 percent went with Obama. Among those who never attend church, six in ten went for Obama.
Well, article says Hispanic Catholics went to Obama 75-21%; and Pew Forum exit polls say white Catholics went Romney 59-40%.
(Btw, in pre-election polling, Pew Forum said Latino Catholics were favoring Obama 73-19...so 75-21 sounds right...and that Latino Evangelicals, who are 14% of Latinos, were favoring Obama 50-39...so it's not only the Latino culture that is problematic...there is something about Catholic culture as well...'cause Latino Catholics favor same-sex marriage -- 54-31%...whereas Latino Evangelicals disfavor same-sex marriage 25-66%...So, what is wrong with Latino Catholic culture that is having a much greater drag, social issues wise, than other Latino religious sub-cultures? And, btw, the problem here isn't only with Latino Catholics...white Catholics favor same-sex marriage 53-37%...so that's 54% of Latino Catholics vs. 53% of white Catholics...showing us that it's the Catholic culture itself that is, in part, corruptive...)
October 2012 Pew Forum source: Latinos, Religion and Campaign 2012: Catholics Favor Obama, Evangelicals Divided