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To: Jack Hydrazine

“So how many Catholic conservatives here are still support this Leftist nutbar?”

First, how many Catholics are conservatives?


82 posted on 06/18/2015 7:48:06 AM PDT by ryan71 (Bibles, Beans and Bullets)
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To: ryan71

Any Catholic that follows the faith.


88 posted on 06/18/2015 7:51:03 AM PDT by NKP_Vet
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To: ryan71; Jack Hydrazine
...how many Catholics are conservatives?

"....studies of the 2004 results identified a new hardcore vote of roughly 16 percent of Catholics (nearly 10 million people) who attend church more than once a week and identify as ideologically “conservative”.
-- from the thread America's conservative Catholics are on the warpath. Republicans should be courting them.
A couple of years back, I estimated that once one eliminates all of the self-professing Catholics who have latae-sententae excommunicated themselves for voting Democrat, failure to attend weekly mass, etc etc etc, the percentage of 70+ million American Catholics that are left would be around 10 million. But that doesn't mean that they're all politically conservative, so this is where the polling numbers come into play.

Even the most conservative-voting Protestant groups only broke 75% Republican in the last two Presidential elections. Now I know it's not accurate to equate Republicans with conservatism, but given the choices in those elections I think it's a safe comparison. IMO it's also safe to assume that our hypothetical 10 million faithful, observant Catholics would break similar to faithful, observant Protestants and Evangelicals. And thus, I estimate that there are no more than 7.5 million politically conservative, actively Catholic voters in the United States.

99 posted on 06/18/2015 8:47:53 AM PDT by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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