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The coming anti-Catholic storm will be linked, sadly, to the reelection campaign of President Barack Obama. He may be out of favor with the far Left at the moment, but they, along with the Catholic Left, will quickly recover their lost enthusiasm in the face of a GOP opponent (no matter who he or she is). There will be a furious and well-funded effort by Catholic Obama supporters to keep Obama in office.

2008 Presidential Election demographics, footnoted and annotated
Your "by the numbers" breakdown of the 2008 vote, with emphasis on the Catholic voter (as of 04/07/09):

55% McCain, 43% Obama - Weekly mass-attending Catholics ^6,9
52% McCain, 47% Obama - White "regular-mass-attending" Catholics¹²
52% McCain, 47% Obama - White Catholic¹⁴
51% McCain, 49% Obama - White Catholics^1,7,11
45% McCain, 54% Obama - Catholics^{1,4,6,8,9,10,11,12}
45% McCain, 54% Obama - Catholic¹⁴
37% McCain, 61% Obama - Non-weekly-mass-attending Catholics^6,12
xx% McCain, 67% Obama - Hispanic Catholics^8,11**,***, ****

** No source provided voting percentages for the other party.
*** Associated Press (citation #11) reports this number as 72%, instead of the 67% other media gave it.
**** Note that some media are reporting the same numbers for the Hispanic and Black vote in general, as well as for those same groups with Catholic or Protestant affiliation.
Citations:
¹ The Awesome Blue God -- How Obama Forged A New Faith Coalition
⁴ Obama's Religious Appeal: Still Missing Evangelicals - which TIME renamed as Obama: Bringing (Some) Evangelicals In
⁶ What's wrong with Catholic voters? What's wrong with Catholics?
⁷ Evangelical Voters Favor McCain by Wide Margins
⁸ Catholic voters heavily favored Obama, analysis shows
⁹ What Happened to the Catholic Vote?
¹⁰ Loyal to the End: Evangelicals Stay the Course
¹¹ Obama results show gains in key religious voters
¹² How the faithful voted
¹⁴ Pew Forum - How The Faithful Voted

All numbers cited above are the earliest ones reported in the press. In cases of multiple reports, some percentages cited were not exact. However, the numbers above are within 2% of all sources cited, lending credence to the general number & placement overall.

Other resources:
With the Help of Catholics…Obama’s Victory
Results! Evangelicals
Mainline Protestants and Latino evangelicals surge toward Obama [pre-election article]
Poll: Latino Protestants switching back to Democrats this election [pre-election article]
The Hispanic Protestant swing vote [pre-election article]
America spoke
Believers in the Pews--and the Polling Booth
McCain Beats Bush on Evangelical Vote

**45% McCain, 54% Obama - Catholics1,4,6,8,9,10,11,12
45% McCain, 54% Obama - Catholic14**

Erroneous numbers. In the final count the Catholic vote — still too much — was only 48 percent for Obama.

Actually NO Catholics voted for Obama — only CINOs did.

Alex ... there is no need to repost your "statistics". The article already addresses them. You should take a closer look at the next sentence, though:

He may be out of favor with the far Left at the moment, but they, along with the Catholic Left, will quickly recover their lost enthusiasm in the face of a GOP opponent (no matter who he or she is). There will be a furious and well-funded effort by Catholic Obama supporters to keep Obama in office.

Essentially, one of the attacks comes from dissenting, "progressive", left-wing catholics like Sr. Keehan.

Alex, your numbers might be spot on, but I don't personally know of even one strong orthodox Catholic that voted for Obama. I do, however, know of several weak-in-faith Catholics who voted for him, Chreasters and the such. As Pope St. Pius V so correctly said:"All the evil in the world can be attributed to lukewarm Catholics."