John Kerry's Catholic support is falling

CBS News | August 20, 2004 | Self

[jmaroneps37]

In the brief month since the end of the Democratic Convention, America's Catholics have started to back away from John Kerry. In a CBS News poll conducted before the convention, Kerry led among white Catholic males 51/40. In a just released poll, CBS now reports that Kerry's lead with this important group has fallen by a net 7 points. The numbers now stand at 48/44 with Kerry still on top. Since 1964, the white male vote has steadily turned away from Democratic presidential candidates. Without support from Catholics,it is doubtful that John Kerry can win this election.

[jmaroneps37]

At catholicsagainstkerry.com we're fighting this man every day.We know how wrong he is for America and America's Catholics. Please join us. We are now preparing to put up radio spots in Ohio and Pennslyvania. Anything you can contribute will go directly to this project. There are no overhead costs.

[Prolifeconservative]

"Life begins at conception" coming back to haunt him.

[italianquaker]

Im with you i sport the bumper sticker and the truth will come out we just cant back off.
w2004
ciao

[Jaded]

I have my bumper stickers on, as does my daughter who will be going to college this weekend. She ordered one for our parish priest, however he is unable to display it so another parishoner availed himself to it. I saw it on his truck today!!

We discussed your website after Mass on Sunday.

[Vigilanteman]

I'm not Catholic, but a close friend of mine is. We are both pro-life. I've told him that there are enough Catholics that the abortion industry could be shut down in one election cycle if Catholics would only vote like pro-life people of other faiths. He applauds the church's stance in denying communion to Catholic politicians who are rabid, outspoken abortionists.

Nobody is denying them the right to express their viewpoint, they are only denying them the right to wrap their phony beliefs in the cloth of Catholicism, thereby slandering the teachings of the church.

If the Muslims would take similar action against those terrorists who wrap themselves in the cloth of Islam as a cover for murder, then there would not be a need for apologist organizations like CAIR to run intereference for terrorism.

[Lord Nelson]

Well good. I was losing hope for you Catholics. I thought the Catholic Church of America had come out in support of tucking our tails between our legs and "forgiving" our attackers. As a Christian it embarassed me this ugly twisted logic Church leaders have stood behind.

Anyways, if Catholics go the way of Evangelicals (whom I believe support Republicans 70 to 30? Which show their longsuffering, since the Republicans have forsaken their Christian base) then Kerry may surely lose. I'm also ashamed of you millions of Christians who bitch and complain about the liberalizing of society but don't get off your fat asses to vote!

[Mercat]

I don't think it's that the general cultural Catholic is strongly against his general policies and ironically, they would probably vote for him if he were Methodist. The fact that he is Catholic though, sort of makes him the poster boy for the Church and altho a lot of Catholics aren't particularly devote, they like to pretend it makes a big difference in their lifes. I'm Catholic btw, so no flames please.

[Welsh Rabbit]

He was never a real Catholic; his conversion was just a cheap ploy to trick Boston voters into thinking he was Irish. Now it no longer matters and he doesn't need to pretend anymore.

[dufekin]

You might want to try radio ads in New Mexico in Spanish, one of the state's two official languages. Roughly 4 in 9 New Mexicans are Hispanic, a legacy not so much of illegal immigration as of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848), by which we bought the territory from Mexico. Most Hispanics are practicing Roman Catholics. Democrats, however, reputedly have run the same sort of ads on Spanish media that they do on black media. (I haven't seen or heard any myself.) Pure vitriol aimed at Bush and glorification of the Democrats who will save them from the bigoted Republicans who want to kill all Hispanics.

Because New Mexico is a 50/50 state (almost literally, even closer than Florida), convincing even a few hundred Spanish-speaking Roman Catholic New Mexicans to vote for Bush instead of Kerry could tip the state into the Bush camp. Democrats are desperate for the Hispanic vote this year because they need to be the party of the minorities against whom the conservatives would discriminate.

[Ken K]

Kerry is Catholic only because he was baptized as one. Other than that it is difficult to recognize anything about him as Catholic. His sense of morality, pursuit of truth, true caring for the needy, loyalty to country, respect for humanity, religious spirituality, and on and on are nonexistent.

[votelife]

This won't help Kerry with any type of moral voter.
For all who need to see the ad, email the ad, etc:

http://humaneventsonline.com.edgesuite.net/unfit_video2.html

[newzjunkey]

Keep up the good work!

[Chode]

and the hits... just keep right on coming!!!