Post-Election Poll: Abortion Helped Bush With Hispanics, Catholics (pro-life politics wins again)

LIFE NEWS ^ | February 3, 2005 | Steven Ertelt

[Liz]

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A new poll conducted by researchers at the University of Akron shows that the abortion issue helped President Bush make considerable gains in the 2004 elections among Catholics and Hispanics.

The poll also finds Bush improving with most religious groups while those who attend church infrequently backed John Kerry.

According to the survey, some 63 percent of Hispanic Protestants supported Bush in 2004 compared with just 32 percent in 2000. Meanwhile, Catholics gave Bush a 53 to 47 percent advantage over the Massachusetts senator, also an increase over Bush's 2000 numbers.

Longtime Democrat voting blocs, both groups voted for the president in part because of social issues like abortion, the poll showed.

"[S]ocial issue priorities were most important to Bush's religious constituencies," the researchers wrote. "A majority of the top four Bush constituencies regarded social issues as very important to their vote."

Raimundo Rojas, the Hispanic outreach coordinator for the National Right to Life Committee, told LifeNews.com that the poll's findings confirm Bush's gains among Hispanic voters were due to his pro-life views.

"President Bush made big gains among Latino voters, specially in the key states of New Mexico, Nevada, Colorado and Arizona, and assured his victory in those states," Rojas said.

Rojas said Bush made better inroads with Latino voters because "Hispanics weren't listening to the propaganda or believing the pro-abortion spin."

"Post-election Democratic squabbling over the specific percentage of the Hispanic vote that went for Bush seems to be more important to them than analyzing why so many Hispanics voted for President Bush," Rojas explained.

"You will never win Latinos over on the issue of abortion. It goes against our nature our culture and our national mores," Rojas told LifeNews.com.

The poll also shows the religious split in the United States with 69 percent of liberal or mainline Christians backing Kerry and 72 percent of evangelical or traditionalist Christians supporting Bush.

The University of Akron conducted the phone survey of 2,730, which was sponsored in part by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life.

Related web sites: See the poll results at

http://www.uakron.edu/bliss/research.php

[Liz]

The poll also finds Bush improving with most religious groups while those who attend church infrequently backed John Kerry..........."A majority of the top four Bush constituencies regarded social issues as very important to their vote."

Dumbocrats' road to oblivion is strewn with the bodies of aborted unborn babies.

[Liz]

Conservative pro-life Christian voters made monumental contributions to GWB's 2004 vote totals. Pres Bush won with 63 Million Votes (13 million more than 2000).

The map, though impressive, conveys the misleading impression that blue state Catholics voted for Kerry (a CINO).

According to EWTN "The World Over Live" analysts, with the exception of VA, where Catholics spit 70/30 in favor of Bush, the majority of Catholic voters split 55/45 for Bush.....a whopping number of votes since Catholics number about 52 million Americans.

According to CNN exit polls, Bush voters included 38% of union members, 40% of those with union members in their households, 42% of those earning $15,000-$30,000, 44% of those who earn under $50,000 and 44% of Latinos, 45% of youth (aged 18-29), 13% of liberals—even 11% of Democrats voted for Bush.

If you look closely, the map appears to place the insignificant "Other Voters" in the ocean.....that's accurate, because "Other Voters--RINO Republicans" were on cruise ships.

(MAP UPDATE Bush won Ohio, Iowa and New Mexico later.)

[Liz]

ping

[Mark in the Old South]

Re: "...with the exception of VA, where Catholics spit 70/30 in favor of Bush, the majority of Catholic voters split 55/45 for Bush."

Whahoo way to go Virginia Catholics. Allow me to ping my catholic, blue state friends. I have been telling them to move to Virginia.

Deb this means you, you La La land nut. :-D

[Liz]

Allow me to ping my Catholic, blue state friends. I have been telling them to move to Virginia.

Great state, Virginia. They look at liberals as if they are from another planet.

[Mark in the Old South]

A few get past us but they have to run as DINOS, to the right of RINOS, our present Governor is a good example.

[Liz]

Yeah, that election was a shocker.

Of course, I referred to good Virginians of my acquaintance, looking askance at libs.

[Liz]

If the South rises again, it'll be thanks to Virginians.

[OldFriend]

Oh no, don't tell Christie Witless.

[sassbox]

let's just hope the GOP keeps this in mind in 2008 and doesn't try running pro-abortion RINO's like Schwarzenegger or Giuliani.

[Pyro7480]

Ping to post #4.

[Liz]

LOL....good one. This'll send her into therapy.

[Liz]

Yeah, for sure those RINOS won't get to run. Bad sign when RNC chair Kenny Mehlman picked pro-abort Joann Davidson as co-chair. One false move on the pro-life agenda and they'll be looking for new jobs....in Afghanistan.

[Liz]

Dumbocrats' road to oblivion is strewn with the bodies of aborted unborn babies.

[Canticle_of_Deborah]

Some of us are preparing for the Catholic reconquista of California. Dear, sweet Pio understands this pressing matter.

La La land nut. :-D

To know us is to love us :-D

[Coleus]

See the pro-life fringe (or should I say the traditional republican party) of the Republican Party come through again.

And the LEGAL Voting Hispanics. The ones who came here the right way, like some of my relatives: legal, with a job, Catholic, Pro Life. the way it should be, working and assimilating into society, learning the language, working and subsequently starting their own business, etc.

American the RIGHT way.

[Liz]

Beautiful take. Glad you're on our side.

[Romish_Papist]

"Catholics gave Bush a 53 to 47 percent advantage over the Massachusetts senator"

Thank God my fellow Catholics are starting to wake up.

"You will never win Latinos over on the issue of abortion. It goes against our nature our culture and our national mores,"

Outstanding, here's hoping they stick to their guns on this.

[Romish_Papist]

Virginia Catholic here. :) Though I was born and raised in Connecticut and am trying to move to either South Carolina or Florida. :)

[bayourod]

"You will never win Latinos over on the issue of abortion. It goes against our nature our culture and our national mores," Rojas told LifeNews.com.

Let's hope they never "assimilate" into the dominant pro-abort culture.

Since you're from a Catholic immigrant background, perhaps you can opine why Bush got 63% of the Protestant Hispanic vote, but only 30% (??) of the Catholic Hispanic vote? (The % was in another thread on this same poll)