[martinidon]

unfortunately, a lot of Catholic voters voted for Obama not to mention the Catholic congress people who voted for the bill.

[Salvation]

Not so fast there -- what about the other voters and the other religions?

Obama won the overall religious vote, 52 percent to 46 percent, reversing President George W. Bush’s 51 percent to 48 percent “values voter” victory over Democratic challenger Sen. John Kerry in 2004. Obama also won the Catholic vote, persuaded young evangelical voters to choose him and began to squeeze shut the so-called “God gap” yawning between religious Democrats and Republicans during the Bush era.

How will the roughly 9.1 million evangelical Christians who voted for Obama vote in the next election? Will Obama's actions compel the 31.2 million evangelicals who didn't vote in the 2008 election to vote next time?

Obama Receives 77% of Jewish Vote-- More Than Kerry
White US Catholics move toward GOP, Hispanic Catholics toward Democrats
Among Catholics, Obama job approval rating decreases to 50 percent

[Salvation]

And you can see -- these are older numbers that other denominations are also droppiung their support of Obama. Why do you always bring up only the Catholics?

50 percent of Catholics (Catholics make up about 22 percent of the U.S. population.) approve of his presidency, down from 67 percent in his first six months in office.

DOWN 17 POINTS

 

among non-Catholic Christians, who make up 55 percent of the U.S. population, had fallen from 58 percent to 43 percent.

DOWN 15 POINTS

 

Mormon respondents, who represent about two percent of U.S. adults, fell from 43 percent to 26 percent

DOWN 17 POINTS

 

About 78 percent of Muslim respondents approved of the Obama presidency, down eight percentage points from when the question was first asked.  (86)

DOWN 8 POINTS

 

atheists, agnostics, and members of other non-Christian religions, who comprise about 13 percent of the U.S. population -- While about 75 percent of these respondents approved of President Obama at the start of his term, their approval declined to about 64 percent.

DOWN 11 POINTS

 

Jews were the religious group third likeliest to approve of President Obama, giving him 61 percent approval. This too is a decline: in January-June 2009, their approval rating of the president was 77 percent.

DOWN 16 POINTS

 

Overall, 48 percent of Americans approve of President Obama’s job, down from 63 percent in the first months of his presidency. Gallup claims that its survey of over 276,000 adults claims an overall margin of error of plus or minus one percent.

DOWN 15 POINTS

 

 

 

 

[WPaCon]

I’d like to see stats for the Catholic vote in Western Pa.

There are a lot of Catholics here compared to other places in the country, so the Catholic vote is extremely important.

I’m not sure if it actually goes to Democrats in the majority here, though. The Catholic vote at least causes many candidates to pretend they’re pro-life or de-emphasize their pro-abortion stances.

Zubik and the other bishops need to pound away at Obama. A lot of people here reflexively vote democrat or are persuaded to by the media. If the Bishop speaks out strongly, it will be sure to make the news. If not, parishioners should get the message in the church bulletins.

Pennsylvania is a swing state that Obama is desperate to win and one where Catholic bishops may have the most influence.