You wrote:
“According to you there only seems to be a very small number of Catholics in the United States, the Vatican must be wildly inflating their numbers.”
False. The Vatican accurately reports the number of baptized Catholics. The number of loyal, practicing, believing Catholics is far smaller, however. This has been the case for at least 40 years since many Catholics in America chose protestantized ideals over the true Christian faith.
“I wonder if the Vatican agrees that you have the power to dismiss 54% of Catholics in America from the church because they voted for Obama?”
Neither I nor the Vatican dismiss them from the Church. We simply dismiss their pretensions about being well informed, well catechized, or loyal.
Well 54% of those Catholic voters voted for Obama, it has always been the norm for Catholics to vote liberal, the exceptions have been rare.