Here again, some very interesting statistics.
Here again, some very interesting statistics.
CINOs!!!!! A practicing Catholic cannot in good conscience vote for a democrat. The Democrat party is the party of abortion and gay sex.
I take solace in that it appears nearly everywhere else is better.
I can tell you with certainty that Iowa Catholics did not vote majority Romney. That calls into question all of the numbers cited.
“Obama people may be awful at governing, but they excel at mobilizing turnout.”
If progressives were as skilled at governing as mobilizing turnout, things like Obamacare might be workable. Unfortunately, they are not and never will be. Worse still, they don’t recognize their ineptitude when it comes to governing. They are convinced that public opposition to Obamacare is grounded in public ignorance rather than public recognition that the government is unlikely to do a better job at running health care than it has done running the Post Office or Amtrak.
Looks like those polls showing Obama ahead were NOT oversampling Dem voters after all.
Romney didn't do this, targeting specific R leaning voters and getting them out by hitting their hot buttons, at least not effectively. Hell, he was winning big on tax cuts (and regulations) so why would he need to do this?
From the Catholic perspective both McCain and Romney were horrible candidates: both were just barely prolife, never articulated their views on pro-life issues of the day,— abortion and the state pandering to the gays, — none spoke of their faith at all, and Romney was not even Christian. McCain supported the bailouts and Romney invented his own version of Obamacare. both were just barely right of center big business candidates with few connection points to the Catholic political culture.
Until we address the organized fraud and gather the courage to fix it, in spite of the charges of “racism”, we can expect to lose.
That looks a heck of a lot better than last time, exepting some places, which did worse...NJ,Pa, Ct what happened? Still NY, Pa, Ia, Fla, Oh, Mi, NH, Wis?!! WOW!
This national number of Obama winning with 50% of the vote is useless—we vote by state and the electoral college. How is the 50% number useful when you have splits between states like La and NM, where in La McCain got 70% of the Catholic vote and in NM Obama got 70% of the Catholic vote? The only thing I Can think of that is throwing everything off is Cali, huge number of Catholics in Cali must be affecting the % of Catholics without regard to the electoral college.
I am SHOCKED that NY Catholics went with Romney. Last time Obama got 60%. The only really big state that I am still curious about is Texas, that would be interesting.
Freegards, thanks for the awesome pings on FR
See no clear conclusion from the posted data.
My observation over time is: those whose church operates by top down direction generally accept statist government without questioning and those who are bottom up generally resist a compulsive state.
FEW of my Baptist Bretheren vote Dem, those who do are operating from a perspective of the past not current government.
The Catholic Bishops in Pennsylvania chose to sit this one out IMHO. They delivered vague, mealy-mouthed incomprehensible instructions to the flock which were basically interpreted as “vote whichever way you were intending to anyway”.
They apparently chose not to antagonize Hispanics and union members, causing a drop in collection basket receipts. Plus we had so many lay ministers, choir directors, etc. driving around with Obama bumper stickers.
Well, it looks like half the Catholics are “catholics”.
The aforementioned “catholics” being wild-eyed, baby-killing, packer/muncher socialists.
Bad news for the real Catholics.
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2008 Generic
Catholic Vote
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2012 Generic
Catholic Vote
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Catholic
Vote
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State
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% of Catholics
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McCain %
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Obama %
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Romney %
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Obama %
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Romney 2012 vs.
McCain 2008
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AZ
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23
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49
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49
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50
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50
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+1
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CA
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28
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37
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58
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38
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62
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+1
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CT
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48
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50
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46
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49
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51
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-1
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FL
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28
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49
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50
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52
|
47
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+3
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IA
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23
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41
|
50
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52
|
47
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+11
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ME
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26
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37
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61
|
41
|
56
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+4
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MI
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29
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46
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51
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55
|
44
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+9
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NV
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25
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42
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57
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46
|
51
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+4
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NH
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38
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50
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50
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54
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46
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+4
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NJ
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44
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55
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45
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43
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45
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-1
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NM
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32
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29
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69
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32
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64
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+3
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NY
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42
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41
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59
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53
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47
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+12
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NC
|
9
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N/A
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N/A
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66
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34
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OH
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26
|
52
|
47
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55
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44
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+3
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PA
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35
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52
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48
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50
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49
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-2
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VA
|
15
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N/A
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N/A
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55
|
45
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WI
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32
|
47
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53
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56
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44
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+9
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Ping for later