I know many Italian and Irish Catholics in the North who still vote Demonrat because they are my grandfather and father were Union Democrats and Ill die a Democrat too types.
Somebody needs to tell them FDR is dead,...
Something that is amiss in this discussion is that:
from Pew Research:
“Weekly attending white Catholics also voted Republican, by a still larger majority.”
http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1112/religion-vote-2008-election
I can barely stand to look at her these days.