From the article, by the numbers (xx means no percentage was given for this candidate):
xx% McCain, 26% Obama - Evangelicals
xx% McCain, 34% Obama - White Protestants
xx% McCain, 45% Obama - Protestants
45% McCain, 54% Obama - Catholics
xx% McCain, 67% Obama - Hispanic Catholics
xx% McCain, 78% Obama - Jews
hypocrites
A sad state of affairs for Catholicism in the US.
So basically, toss out the freeloading hispanics, and actual American Catholics supported the Republican, even a stiff like John McCain.
These Catholics are most definitely not listening to their shepherds, the Bishops.
seems like a good amount of those catholics that switched were hispanic.
It’s interesting that they make analysis on exit poll data, that has a lot of bias in it, including selection and interviewer.
Now the data could be close to the actual, but I would take all analysis based on exit polls with a grain of salt.
I hope they enjoy the faith hating marxism they voted for.
They aren’t “religious people” as the article says. They are secularists and probably spiritually bound to “democracy” and “socialism”.
This is why I left my church...but not my faith.
Catholic Democrats??? BABYKILLERS!!!!
But keep up the hate, brother!
The 78% Jewish vote is the saddest one. I’m convinced they have emotionally detached themselves from Israel.
I approached an intersection today where 4 black women were collecting donations for their church. As one started toward me I had already decided I was going to decline by saying I could not donate to any church that supported abortion. Alas, the light changed before she could get close enough for me to say it.
I haven’t even gone to church because my priest is so far left. I couldn’t take him anymore. I attend TV Mass.
This should not be a surprise. Catholics have been concerned for a long, long time with social justice issues and are voting according to their beliefs. The dominant Evangelicals which we have tied ourselves to are a product of the late 19th Century and have (to my Catholic school ears) a strange interpretation of the Bible which borrows a lot from the Old Testament and glosses over a good portion of Jesus’s teachings.
This is what comes of thinking that all Christians believe what Karl Rove’s “base” believes. I always knew it was a mistake to allow the Fundamentalists to hold this much sway over our party. They might have been enough of a population to move the percentage points a bit this way or that but were never going to be enough if the majority of the electorate decided to vote the other way.
I’d just as soon jettison the fundies and court the Catholics and perhaps move the party and Conservatism to a more intellectual grounding.
I didn’t vote for him, and most Catholics I know didn’t either.
if mccain had explained the democrat origins of the subprime crisis properly,
he would have been elected.
people wrongly blamed bush for the economic malaise.
No,
CATHOLIC voters did not vote for Obamanation.
CINOs — Catholics in Name Only voted for him, and in doing so, excommunicated themselves from the Catholic Church.
We need to get out there and catechize them.
You MUST love Archbishop Chaput; he's still in there fighting!
Archbishop Chaput Eager to See Kmiec Deliver a Pro-Life Obama
And this is why we will never, ever, see an American Pope.