“Catholics” is not one thing.
11/4 at the three of our six Masses that I happen to know about, the homilies were about the primacy of the right to life over social concerns. One homily was met with prolonged applause. The others were met with approval, except that a few people walked out.
Our “youth”, university students, are strongly anti-Obama.
So I think there are demographic aspects of “Catholics” that may make generalization a little complicated.
Good Lord, we can’t do anything about the Catholic’s almost permanent loyalty to the democrat party as long as catholics even refuse to acknowledge that catholics vote as they do.
Even on FR every thread about the democrat voting block of the members of the catholic denomination, consists of catholics who are supposed to be conservative political activists, saying ‘nope, move away from this topic, do not discuss this’.
Demographics didn’t create a 150 year history for the Catholic vote, and demographics don’t mean much in a church that is a single church, a single denomination, under a single authority, and under a single teaching.