Polls are only in agreement of Catholics having voted Republican three times in our history, an additional three times are disputed, 2004 is one of those that is disputed, we do know that Catholics voted against Bush in 2000, and for Obama in 2008. Catholics are a Democrat voting block, and destined to become more so as the over 45 Catholics are replaced by younger ones.
What you don’t understand is that if the under 45 year old vote had been 50/50, or even only slightly pro Obama, then Obama would have lost, instead Obama took the Gen Y vote by 66%.
The race in 2012 will be to see if the older voters can overcome that huge Obama love among the young.
Your constant defense of that 66% Obama vote and your seeming hopes for it’s continued growth in the future is astounding, you actually look forward to that Obama youth vote taking over.
He also would have lost if the Boomers had voted 53-42 for McCain.
That’s not a big shift. That’s the point I’m making. A 5 point shift in the boomers changes the whole election.
You are right that Catholics have traditionally been a democrat voting block, but the fact that the two elections in which they have voted republican were in 2000 and 2004, suggests that Catholics are becoming, more not less republican over time.
The opposite is true of the baby boomers. Hence my concern. You forget that the majority of the problems in the Catholic church come from the Ted Kennedy, Vatican II bunch which includes the boomers. They are the Catholics who voted lockstep for the Kennedys, etc.
“Your constant defense of that 66% Obama vote and your seeming hopes for it’s continued growth in the future is astounding, you actually look forward to that Obama youth vote taking over.”
I do, yes, look forward to the young people taking over. They certainly can’t do worse than the Boomers like Obama and co. I’d be thrilled if another boomer president was never elected, but we shall see. We have to take what we can get. I like Cain. He’s a boomer, but he gets it.
So does Bachmann. Palin would be awesome because she’s not a boomer and would do a great job running the country. Perry too. There’s lots of good boomer candidates out there.
Now we just have to hope the Boomers can vote in one of their own.