What we say about our Catholic faith is the easy part. What we do with it shapes who we really are. Many good Catholics voted for President Obama. Many voted for Senator McCain. Both parties have plenty of decent people in their ranks.
But when we hear that 54 percent of American Catholics voted for President Obama last November, and that this somehow shows a sea change in their social thinking, we can reasonably ask: How many of them practice their faith on a regular basis? And when we do that, we learn that most practicing Catholics actually voted for Senator McCain. Of course, that doesn't really tell us whether anyone voted for either candidate for the right reasons. Nobody can do a survey of the secret places of the human heart. But it does tell us that numbers can be used to prove just about anything. We won't be judged on our knowledge of poll data. We'll be judged on whether we proved it by our actions when we said "I am a Catholic, and Jesus Christ is Lord."
- Archbishop Charles Chaput
That guy was telling a form of lie, there was no sea change, the Catholic vote has always been liberal.
Republicans have rarely ever won the Catholic vote, and that was almost always for reelections.
In 2000 for instance Catholics voted for Al Gore, but in 2004, they voted 52% for the Republican, of course in that same year, Hispanics that were Protestant voted 56% for the Republican.