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Romney Won’t Get the Catholic Vote
Monday, January 30, 2012 11:37 AM
By: Bob Reilly
Old guard Republicans are in a state of near hysteria over the prospect of Newt Gingrich being the Republican candidate against President Barack Obama.
They say he is unelectable because of his volatile personality and problematic past. The answer to this problem, they say, is the candidacy of Gov. Mitt Romney. He should be the Republican candidate because he is “electable.”
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The incumbent Democrat president has possibly lost the Catholic vote once before in American history, and that may have been Jimmy Carter against Ronald Reagan in 1980 where polls give a range for the Reagan Catholic vote of 46% up to 50%, anyway, it was close to a 50/50 split.
Will Catholics turn against Obama, I don’t know, but it isn’t certain whether Newt or Romney would do better.
I personally think that Newt would be worth a couple or a few points once they learned that his is a Catholic. I do think that if Newt can get in, that he would aggressively work to move the Catholic vote to the right and that 8 years later, they would be more conservative.