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Catholic Vote Swings Democratic in Midterm Elections
Beliefnet ^ | Jeff Diamant

Posted on 11/11/2006 1:41:23 PM PST by Sabramerican

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To: Fudd Fan

THIS Catholic even voted for Bob Dole (!) instead of voting a RAT in office!


21 posted on 11/11/2006 2:12:52 PM PST by NewCenturions
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To: mystery-ak; mariabush

Do you really think that (conservatives sitting home). I know a lot of pissed off conservatives that still voted R. I just don't think there was enough of a conservative sit-out to make the big difference. And the exit polling seems to indicate it was more the swing voters that swung (swinged?) the other way this time. I.e., the catholics who sometimes vote R, sometimes D. Of those, I'm related to a few. And no, I don't understand them.


22 posted on 11/11/2006 2:15:41 PM PST by I_like_good_things_too
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To: Cicero
Let's see. Catholic support dropped from 52 to 45%, a massive defection, but Evangelicals turned out with a drop of only 7%.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding this, but isn't a drop from 52 to 45 also only 7%? Doesn't that mean that conservative Catholic and Evangelical turnout dropped about equally?


(52-45) / 52 = 13.5%. This is the percentage of Catholic voters the GOP lost compared to the previous election.

(78-70) / 78 = 10%. The percentage of Protestant voters that did the same.

23 posted on 11/11/2006 2:16:41 PM PST by Skylab
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To: Sabramerican

Don't blame me, even though I'm more of a CINO (Catholic In Name Only).


24 posted on 11/11/2006 2:17:57 PM PST by NotSoFreeStater
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To: Sabramerican

As the Chief of Field operations for Catholics Against Kerry I dealt with the question of who is a Catholic for purposes of figureing out whta is the "Catholic vote".
People who go to Church to be Baptized, married and burried. Are not Catholics any more than Frances Kissling of Catholics for Free Choice are Catholics. To trust Pew or anyone else at this point is a little premature. Let's see.


25 posted on 11/11/2006 2:18:19 PM PST by jmaroneps37 (Millions of Democrat babies aborted in 1988 or earlier did not vote this year.)
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To: avile

There was an excellent study of the Catholic vote in Crisis Magazine some years ago. As this article notes, almost all Catholics used to be Democrats, because they were working class Irish, Poles, Italians, etc. Also, like Jews, Catholics were discriminated against by the WASP establishment.

Then they started drifting out of the party when it began to represent abortion and perversion more than the little guy. This took decades, but has seen the Catholic Republican vote go up from single digits to a little over 50-50.

Catholics who attend Mass regularly are far more likely to vote Republican than nominal Catholics.

Unfortunately, catechesis has been uneven since Vatican II, so a lot of Catholics really have not been properly educated in their religion unless they have made an effort to do it themselves, or have had the good fortune to belong to a strong diocese or parish.


26 posted on 11/11/2006 2:20:07 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Sabramerican
As a Catholic, I could NEVER vote for a candidate that embraces infanticide AND offers anything less than full support for Israel.

Apparently, they made some headway with their "Jesus was a socialist" and "neocon cabal" (read: Jews) nonsense.

While Jesus obviously stressed PERSONAL sacrifice, I cannot find where He advocated coerced "compassion".

And Israel is clearly a bulkhead of Civilization in a region stuck in the 8th century.

27 posted on 11/11/2006 2:20:56 PM PST by Mr. Buzzcut (metal god ... visit The Ponderosa .... www.vandelay.com ... DEATH BEFORE DHIMMITUDE)
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To: Sabramerican

they are not catholics. they are socialists.


28 posted on 11/11/2006 2:21:45 PM PST by ripley
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To: I_like_good_things_too

I don't know for sure. Maybe there are just more of them than us again!!!!


29 posted on 11/11/2006 2:22:08 PM PST by Coldwater Creek (The TERRORIST are the ones who won the midterm elections!)
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To: Salvation

Yes, NANNY'S fault!!!!!


30 posted on 11/11/2006 2:22:52 PM PST by Coldwater Creek (The TERRORIST are the ones who won the midterm elections!)
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To: APFel

If the shoe fits wear it!!!!!


31 posted on 11/11/2006 2:23:36 PM PST by Coldwater Creek (The TERRORIST are the ones who won the midterm elections!)
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To: Cicero

"Bush has been a disappointment these last two years, accomplishing very little except for those two excellent Supreme Court appointments."

The "religious, saintly Demos blocked President Bush at every turn and daily spewed their hatred for him that he did not "do'" anything! And the RINOS HELPED the DEMOS to block him!

The most recent "impartial spin was what Lynne Cheney was talking about - CNN's "Broken Government.!"

And you say President Bush didn't DO anything?

Sounds like the liberal media's mantra!

Please read in this link about ALL the things President Bush HASN'T done for conserbvatives - And this compilation was done 3 years ago.

Guess how much he has done since - even with those saintly Demos BLOCKING him!

* * *

Who says George W. Bush has done "nothing" for conservatives?

WhiteHouse.gov; various news sources ^ | 1/27/04


Posted on 01/27/2004 7:03:00 AM PST by Wolfstar


[ED. NOTE: In the last few months, FReeper Southack put together a list of Bush administration achievements over its first three years in office, and tirelessly posted it whenever an opportunity presented itself. Southack gave me permission to take that list, organize it by topics, and enhance it with further research from whitehouse.gov and other sources. This thread is posted in gratitude to and in honor of Southack.]


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32 posted on 11/11/2006 2:24:44 PM PST by Anita1 ((In support of the troops, but opposed to the war means - you don't believe in what they are doing!))
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To: mariabush
It doesn't fit. And lay off of that exclamation key.

It is a common saying around here: Dems find anyone to blame besides themselves. The saying goes both ways, it seems.

Have a nice long look in the mirror and examine the boys and girls on the Republican side of the isle before you point your jaundiced finger our way, Maria.

APf
33 posted on 11/11/2006 2:29:01 PM PST by APFel (You too can take Dylan Thomas out of context! Ask me how!)
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To: Fudd Fan

This is how some roman Catholics put it to me: Republicans want the death penalty for murderers but the bishop says no death penalty. Republicans want pro life but the bishop says let us decide by our conscience.

Notice it's the bishop this and that...not the pope.

There's more to the inconsistencies of their beliefs.

With that kind of whacky logic you cannot expect a better outcome.


34 posted on 11/11/2006 2:30:38 PM PST by eleni121 (sometimes you have to cut off the limb to save the body)
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To: Sabramerican
If anybody from my religion (Catholic) votes for a baby killer they are NOT Catholic. And if they voted for and elected the supporters of al Qaeda then they need to return to their homeland and get out of the US.
35 posted on 11/11/2006 2:31:57 PM PST by YOUGOTIT
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To: BW2221

Many of the Catholics I know are pro-life and anti-gay marriage, but they support minimum wage increases, welfare assistance, medicare and medicaid and are against the war and the death penalty.


36 posted on 11/11/2006 2:32:48 PM PST by kalee
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To: mariabush
It's politics. Sometime you win and sometime you lose.

Politicians seem to understand this. A lot of folks around here don't.

As much as I hate the policies of the Dims, it's not good for either party to rule the roost for too long.

37 posted on 11/11/2006 2:34:30 PM PST by wireman
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To: BamaAndy

Well, in my little parish here in Alabama the majority of us voted Republican. Elmore county voted about 70% Republican. Good catholics know not to support pro-abortionists. It really is that simple.

The drive by media (DBM) went well out of their way this year to support the dems. Many, if not most of their stories, were lies, half-truths, innuendos, miss-stated statistics and other fraudulent reports. Why start believing them whole cloth now that the election is over?

I wonder how you even report the voting trends of a subset of the electorate? Fact is, Republicans lost a bunch of squeakers to give control of Congress back to the Dems, but if the dems are so popular (as the DBM is now saying), why wasn't every election a blowout for them?

crickets....


The fact is, we're still a 50-50 nation.


38 posted on 11/11/2006 2:37:40 PM PST by Alas Babylon!
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To: mystery-ak

The Neocons brought it on themselves when they pissed off the base.


39 posted on 11/11/2006 2:38:23 PM PST by omega4179 (Stop McCain/Giuliani 08)
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To: Cicero

Another telling sign is the white male vote for the GOP dropped from 60% in 2004 to 53% this year. The GOP needs to get AT LEAST 60% of the white male vote to maintain any majority, and needs to examine why there was such a dramatic drop among this core group.


40 posted on 11/11/2006 2:39:50 PM PST by RFT1
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