[CatholicVote.org] The Catholic vote cannot be understood correctly without defining what we mean by “Catholic.” And since 2000, intelligent political observers agree that the best way to measure the Catholic vote is to break up the generic “Catholic vote” into those that regularly attend Mass (active Catholics) and those that do not regularly attend Mass (inactive Catholics).
So what happened in 2012? Here are the facts: Active Catholics accounted for 11% of the electorate in 2012 and voted 57-42 for Mitt Romney over President Obama. This represents a 14-point swing from 2008.
Inactive Catholics represented 13% of the electorate and voted 56-42 for President Obama.
RE: Here are the facts: Active Catholics accounted for 11% of the electorate in 2012 and voted 57-42 for Mitt Romney over President Obama. This represents a 14-point swing from 2008.
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We have about 120 Million people who voted in 2012.
If Active Catholics are 11% of this, that would make 13 Million Active Catholics who voted.
42% of 13 million is 5.5 Million VOTES !! Obama won by just over 3 million votes.
5.5. million votes would have been more than enough to defeat Obama.
That also means enough ACTIVE Catholics voted for a baby-killing supporting, gay marriage supporting, contraceptive and abotificent supporting President, who wants a law to force Catholics to PAY for these, to give him a second term.
How many of these active Catholics are going to repent in ragged clothes and ashes for what they are doing to the church?