Obama and the Democrats have never worried about losing their constituencies, at least not the Jews and the Catholics.
The reason is that many people in those groups have been Democrats since birth and it’s a part of their souls, so to speak.
It is the fault of these two groups why the liberals in the Democrat party have continued to march leftward without any punishment. If Catholics had turned their backs on the Democrats when they embraced all sorts of immoral lifestyles and unlimited abortion, etc. descent into a cesspool would have been halted. It seems that Catholics are only in the past 10-20 years moving more and more into the conservative, more traditional political side of the spectrum after years of insults from the left.
Whether Jews will finally see the light is doubtful, although the GOP does have a higher percentage of Jewish voters than ever before. Pray that it is not too late.
The reason is that many people in those groups have been Democrats since birth and it’s a part of their souls, so to speak.
It is the fault of these two groups why the liberals in the Democrat party have continued to march leftward without any punishment. If Catholics had turned their backs on the Democrats when they embraced all sorts of immoral lifestyles and unlimited abortion, etc. descent into a cesspool would have been halted. It seems that Catholics are only in the past 10-20 years moving more and more into the conservative, more traditional political side of the spectrum after years of insults from the left.
I agree with this 100%. If American Catholics simply voted their theology we'd have never been in this mess to begin with. Ironically, Catholic opposition to classical liberal economics is based on European right wing ideology, which is very different from American right wing ideology. Since the United States has never had a European or Catholic style right wing political party, they had to make do with the Democrats. Now the Democrats have drug them leftward into the sewers and they (with the exception of a heroic remnant) are completely at peace with it.
Meanwhile Orthodox Jews (who always have to maintain good relations with whoever or whatever is in power) continue to be represented by liberal Democrats (even "Orthodox" liberal Democrats) who continue to thump secular multiculturalism and government money as the only things standing between Jewish life in the United States and utter annihilation.
These groups are disappointments, but the Democrats have done this with every single bloc vote they've ever owned. How soon we have forgotten the "Solid South" which had the Deep South giving its votes in two separate elections to Adlai E. Stevenson because they were still sore at the Republican party for winning the Civil War! For a while it seemed that nothing would ever change that, and even now the "yellow dog Democrat" is unfortunately not totally extinct.