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“The Catholics I know are voting Clinton.”

Sincere question: do these Catholics you know who are voting for HRC go to Mass every week? Because 90% of the Catholics I know who actually go to Mass every week are voting for Trump, while almost all of the Catholics I know who are voting for Clinton go to Church only on Christmas or Easter...or never. In addition, many of the Catholics I know who rarely go to Mass are voting for Trump. Perhaps it would be clearer to write it this way: most of the people I know are Catholic; 75% go to Mass every week and 25% go rarely or never; of the weekly Mass goers, 90% are voting for Trump and 10% are voting for HRC; of the rarely or never Mass-goers, 70% are voting for HRC and 30% are voting for Trump.

The ABSOLUTELY go to mass every week! A couple of the men began the training for priesthood at 14 years old, living away from home (monastery? Not sure what it’s called). They left just before doing the final whatever to become full-fledged priests. They faithfully sing in the choir. There are six of them (3 women, 3 men) — all so rabidly left wing (I believe they’re actually socialists) that we MAY NOT discuss politics with them or there’ll be Hell to pay. (Of course, as with all libs, it’s OK for them to make snarky comments. Free speech is for them.) Social get-togethers are difficult.

They don’t like Obama because he hasn’t been left-wing enough.

many of the Catholics I know who rarely go to Mass are voting for Trump.

And which are a minority.

The percentage of all Catholics who say they attend Mass at least once a week has dropped from 47% in 1974 to 24% in 2012. - http://www.pewforum.org/2013/03/13/strong-catholic-identity-at-a-four-decade-low-in-us/

A Catholic study reported that the percentage of U.S. adult Catholics who say they attended Mass once a week or more (i.e., those attending every week) was 24% in 2012. http://cara.georgetown.edu/caraservices/requestedchurchstats.html

37% of Catholics who attend Mass at least once a week say using contraceptives is morally wrong while 33% say it is morally acceptable and 30% say it is not a moral issue. — http://www.pewresearch.org/key-data-points/u-s-catholics-key-data-from-pew-research/#abortion

Over 75% of those who left Catholicism attended Mass at least once a week as children Pew forum, Faith in Flux (April 27, 2009) http://pewforum.org/uploadedfiles/Topics/Religious_Affiliation/fullreport.pdf

Perhaps it would be clearer to write it this way: most of the people I know are Catholic; 75% go to Mass every week and 25% go rarely or never; of the weekly Mass goers, 90% are voting for Trump and 10% are voting for HRC; of the rarely or never Mass-goers, 70% are voting for HRC and 30% are voting for Trump.

Catholics favor Clinton over Trump 51 to 40 percent, according to a recent survey from the Public Religion Research Institute, which co-sponsored the panel at the National Press Club.

http://religionnews.com/2016/10/31/once-predictable-catholic-voting-trends-are-shifting/

Not so fast: Catholic votes may be shifting to Trump Crux Staff November 3, 2016

Now, one top daily tracking poll is consistently putting Trump ahead among Catholics - often by double digits. As of Nov. 2, it had Trump ahead of Clinton among Catholics by 13 percentage points - 50 percent to 37 percent. The poll making this claim is not some obscure or partisan operation, but the IBD/TIPP daily tracking poll - rated by Nate Silver as the most accurate national poll of the last presidential cycle in 2012. - https://cruxnow.com/church-in-the-usa/2016/11/03/not-fast-catholic-votes-may-shifting-trump/