I have noticed and believe that quinnipiac is pretty anti-Catholic so a little investigation was in order.
http://www.catholicleague.org/quinnipiac-poll-on-gay-marriage/
“Quinnipiac asked Catholic voters 14 questions on issues of interest to them, and on all but one the survey disaggregated the answers on the basis of church attendance. The one exception was on same-sex marriage.”
Now, if there wasn’t an agenda why didn’t they?
I think this survey reflects what the general Roman Catholic electorate voted for in November 2012. Remember, Obama is the gay-marriage and abortion (up to and including infanticide) supporting President.
Post-election polling shows U.S. Roman Catholics were as likely to favor President Barack Obama as the general population in 2012, continuing the Catholic record as the bellwether of the popular vote.
Catholics – the country’s largest religious group with one-quarter of the population – have supported the winner of the popular vote in every election since 1972.
See here:
http://www.cathnewsusa.com/2012/11/most-catholics-vote-for-obama-but-latinos-and-whites-divided/
EXCERPT:
Reuters/Ipsos exit polling found that 51 percent of Catholics favored President Barack Obama, compared with 48 percent for Republican contender Mitt Romney. A report by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life had a similar finding, with 50 percent of Catholics for Obama and 48 percent for Romney, the same as the popular vote in the general population.
Hispanic Catholics were far more likely to favor Obama – by 76 percent to 23 percent – than white Catholics, who favored Romney by 56 percent to 43 percent, according to the Reuters poll. Black Protestants favored Obama by 97 percent to 3 percent, while white Protestants favored Romney by 69 percent compared to 29 percent for Obama.
“When you talk about Catholics, there are really two Catholic votes, the white vote and the Hispanic vote, which look starkly different,” said Robert Jones, chief executive of the Public Religion Research Institute. He said exit polls found that overall, voters were focused mainly on economic issues.
Good research.
They should have disaggregated it on this ?, but the argument that this is important in order to separate true Cs from false ones is also a problem, as Rome treats the nominal as members in life and in death, as the Catholic funeral for Chavez just exampled, who could have been excluded based on strict adherence to canon law. See http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2995066/posts?page=126#126 and links.
Meanwhile, many surveys testify to the overall liberal status of Catholics: http://www.peacebyjesus.com/RC-Stats_vs._Evang.html