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Loudly Catholic Santorum loses Ohio Catholics
CNN ^ | 3/7/12 | Dan Gilgoff

Posted on 03/07/2012 7:50:09 AM PST by marshmallow

(CNN) - Rick Santorum, a conservative Catholic who is outspoken about faith-based issues, lost Catholic voters by a wide margin in Ohio on Tuesday, potentially a key factor that allowed Mitt Romney to squeak out the narrowest of victories overall in the state.

According to CNN’s exit polls, Romney took 43% of Ohio Catholics on Super Tuesday, compared to 31% for Rick Santorum, and Romney beat Santorum overall by 38% to 37%.

Catholic voters accounted for a third of Ohio’s Republican electorate, the largest share of Catholics in any Super Tuesday state.

“The margin of Romney's win among Ohio Catholics is surprising, given Santorum's traditional Catholicism,” says John Green, a political science professor at the University of Ohio. “Romney's margin among Ohio Catholics - especially in the three largest metropolitan areas - may account for his close win in Ohio.”

Green notes that Romney, a Mormon, has consistently won the Catholic vote in this year’s Republican primaries. That pattern runs counter to speculation that Catholics would focus more on hot-button issues at a time when Catholic bishops are battling the Obama White House over government-mandated contraception coverage.

Romney has denounced the Obama administration’s contraception rule but Santorum has gone further, making social issues a cornerstone of his campaign. Last week, the former Pennsylvania senator said that John F. Kennedy’s 1960 speech in which the then-presidential candidate advocated an absolute separation of church and state nearly made him throw up.

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TOPICS: Catholic; Moral Issues; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: kenyanbornmuzzie; mittromney; newtgingrich; ricksantorum
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To: Wallace T.

Which doesn’t change post 54.

The Protestant vote goes Republican, the Catholic vote goes Democrat.


61 posted on 03/07/2012 12:01:34 PM PST by ansel12 (Santorum-Catholic and "I was basically pro-choice all my life, until I ran for Congress" he said))
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To: marshmallow

Does Ohio have an open primary? If so, the old urban ethnic union Democrats strike again.


62 posted on 03/07/2012 12:22:28 PM PST by Zionist Conspirator (Ki-hagoy vehamamlakhah 'asher lo'-ya`avdukh yove'du; vehagoyim charov yecheravu!)
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Three evidence explains the the reason why so many, many Catholics vote for Romney or a Democrats -

1) [As someone pointed out] the majority of Protestants vote pro-life, the majority of Catholics vote pro-abortion - Romney is a flip flopper on pro-abortion pro-life - these Catholics are evidently flipped their head flop to pro-abortion - this supports the Devil Satan and his evil ways of pro-abortion - very sad for a group of people who should have known Bible doctrine and vote pro-life

2) The Mormon Cult has always had a very successful recruit of Catholics - hence the sympathetic vote for Mormon Romney - another successful deception recruiting by the Mormons on those Catholics - this also supports the Devil Satan and his evil ways of false Bible doctrine which so easily deceived many Catholics - simply because so many are very ignorant about correct Bible doctrines of grace and eternal salvation at the moment of faith - their priests must be unenlightened on instructing Bible truths that would allow them to become unyielding to forms of un-sound Bible doctrines such as the Mormon Satanic doctrines

3) The majority of Catholics voted in 2008 for Obama (communist, anti-Christ type liar, socialist, anti-American); such a move by the Catholics was most appalling - for Obama is NO Christian - by Palin was a genuine Christian - oh, but we cannot have Catholics voting for a Protestants, rather vote for Satan's man Obama - again, these people simply voted for the empty lies of Obama on issues regarding the poor and immigration - they were foolishly deceived by Obama back then in 2008 - and again - 2012 they have again been deceived now by a Mormon cult member - Oh foolish Catholics, who has bewitched ou, that you all should not obey the truth, then and now being ignorant about correct Bible doctrines of grace and eternal salvation at the moment of faith, for have you received the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

4) Vote Projection: Catholics again will vote in the 2012 election for the wrong candidate - on the one hand - Democrat Catholics will vote for Obama (Satan's man of deception for America - on the other hand - Republican and independent Catholics will vote for Mormon Romney (follower of Satan's false prophet Joseph Smith, the false prophet for America)

I am so happy to know that God sees their every move....hence, take heed how you vote...and...

Romans 2:16: In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.

63 posted on 03/07/2012 7:43:27 PM PST by bibletruth
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