Sorry to disagree with you, but that's not how the numbers are shaping up. There was a 10%+ difference in McCain support, between Evangelicals & Protestants (no matter how often they attended church) versus your weekly-mass-attending Catholics:
75% McCain, 25% Obama - [White Born Again ***] Evangelicals*
65% McCain, xx% Obama - White Protestants**
62% McCain, 35% Obama - State of Utah
54% McCain, 44% Obama - Weekly church-goers
51% McCain, 49% Obama - White Catholics*
xx% McCain, 53% Obama - Monthly church-goers
45% McCain, 54% Obama - Catholics
xx% McCain, 59% Obama - Semi-annual church-goers
38% McCain, 61% Obama - Occasional churchgoers
xx% McCain, 68% Obama - Don't attend church 21% McCain, 78% Obama - American Jews
Presbyterian Reporter, if you maintain a ping list, can you include me on it?
You are comparing apples to oranges. If every voter who had ever been baptized in a Protestant church was considered a “Protestant voter” by pollsters, the voting patterns of so-called protestants would line up very much with those of so-called catholics.
That comparison is never made, however, because it doesn’t comport with the “What’s WRONG with those people?!” meme.