If the Dems think they can reverse the trend towards Republicans among church-going Catholics, they are deluded. Of the 25% of Americans who call themselves Catholic, I'd say a third of those are weekly church-goers. Of that group (weekly church-goers), I'd put the percentage that voted for GWB over Gore and Kerry at over 90%. That's right: over 90%. Very few practicing Catholics I know voted for Kerry, and zero of the truly devout Catholics I know did, either. Dems may make some headway with the twice-a-year-to-Church Catholics -- although I think even they are pretty conservative politically -- but real Catholics deserted the Dems (if they were ever with the Dems in the first place) a long time ago.
There are some exceptions.
In Wisconsin, the notorious hard-left Feingold trounced his (R) opponent in the Senate race. The opponent, pro-gun, 100% pro-life, vigorous and obviously earnest, had a touch of immaturity and an appalling understanding of Civics 101.
Worse, in a State which had been nuked by the PRChina industrial-job-theft, he would NOT run counter to the GWB party-line--"see no evil, hear no evil..."
Even GWB, in Ohio, finally admitted that "there are problems." Not that he's done anything about it, mind you, but he admitted it.
Feinie's opponent refused to even consider it. IMHO it would have been MUCH closer--maybe even within the margin of Democrat-stolen-votes, if he had. (The State of Wisconsin went Kerry by 14,000 votes. Newspaper investigation demonstrates that about 7,000 votes in Milwaukee ALONE were questionable, to say the least.)