But as seen in more than one FR thread, the way some absolve Catholics from blame is to argue that about half of Catholics did not vote [citation needed], and then blame evangelicals for Romney's loss, as too many of them did not vote, for among those who did 79% voted for Romney - a higher % than any other religious group, even Mormons! So about half the Catholics are pouring on a fire while almost 80% of evangelicals are fighting it, but the latter it to be blamed for the loss of the house because too many stayed home like about half the Catholics.
Case in point, this day-after-the-election diatribe from Catholic blogger Kevin Collins:
The experts are wringing their hands trying to figure out why Romney didn’t win, but now we know: the 14 million missing voters from Romney’s column are Evangelicals. Evangelical Christians may not be evil people, but they helped an evil president become an evil dictator on Tuesday. The exact numbers aren’t in but clearly the vast majority of Evangelicals stayed home on Election Day. They weren’t dealing with a storm or a personal family emergency. They stayed home because they made a conscious decision to allow our Marxist enemy to continue ruining our lives rather than have Mormon Mitt Romney as our president....The Evangelicals’ hatred of Romney burns so brightly it blinded them. Self- flagellation and a willingness to aid and abet a clear enemy became preferable to them – consequences be damned.
-- from the thread Evangelicals plunge America into darkness – mislead polls and stay home on Election Day
So instead of blaming the majority of Catholics - who make up a greater percentage of the electorate - for not voting like Evangelicals, they blame the most conservative group because too many of them did what Catholic’s did. The fact is that in many elections, it would have been better for conservatives if all Catholics stayed home, which cannot be said of Evangelicals. But they must protect Rome from any blame at any cost to objectivity.
I would like to know where he got his “the vast majority of Evangelicals”stayed home figure, and how man Catholics did. The National Election Pool, which conducts exit polls for major media outlets, decided to exclude 19 states from its polling this last election, rather than the usual 50, and i am not sure if that makes much of a difference.