They always talk about the Protestant vote, when Santorum was run out of office in 2006, he got 39% of the Catholic vote, 42% of the white Catholic vote, 49% of the Protestant vote, 55% of the white Protestant vote, and 71% of the white Evangelical vote.
Catholics are all from a single church, and are baptized members of that church, for Protestants they lump together black churches, homosexual churches, ultra conservative churches like the Southern Baptists, who although they are second in size only to the Catholics, get lumped in with the hard left churches.
Protestants didn't vote for Obama, baptized Catholics did, they are very Democrat. The Protestant vote (all lumped together) has only gone Democrat in 1932, 1936, and 1964, it is the same in California, Protestants vote majority Republican, the majority of Catholics prefer Democrats.
Keep pickin’ them cherries.
“They always talk about the Protestant vote”
No “they” don’t. They refer thousands of times to “Evangelical vote.”
What part of “Evangelical” as a subdivision of “Protestant” don’t you get?
The division among Protestants is so clear that everyone (except cherry-pickers like you) take it for granted.
Well, darn it, the same fault lines exist among “Catholics.” The difference is that there’s a veneer of unity—mainly because the bishops refused to excommunicate the CINOs years ago.
When it suits you, you ignore the fault lines. Fine. You are free to do that. But if you want to understand electoral politics, you’d better pay attention.
But you just wanted to slam Santorum by claiming that “Catholics” don’t support him.
Well, Protestants support Romney by a landslide. Protestants are going to give us Romney as the candidate.
It’s all the fault of Protestants.
Pick them cherries.