Posted on 11/11/2018 9:36:49 AM PST by ealgeone
An examination of how Roman Catholics have voted in the past four midterm elections.
Yr | D | R | |
2006 | 55% | 44% |
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2010 | 44% | 54% | |
2014 | 45% | 54% | |
2018 | 50% | 49% | |
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http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/11/07/how-religious-groups-voted-in-the-midterm-elections/
Democrats controlled the House in 2006 and 2018.
For comparison with Presidential voting results I present the following below.
Yr | D | R | ||
1952 | 56% | 44% | ||
1956 | 51% | 49% | ||
1960 | 78% | 22% | Kennedy | |
1964 | 76% | 24% | LBJ | |
1968 | 59% | 33% | ||
1972 | 48% | 52% | ||
1976 | 57% | 41% | Carter |
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1980 | 46% | 47% | ||
1984 | 39% | 61% | ||
1988 | 51% | 49% | ||
1992 | 47% | 35% | Clinton | |
1996 | 55% | 35% | Clinton | |
2000 | 52% | 46% | ||
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2004 | 52% | 48% | ||
2008 | 53% | 47% | Obama | |
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2012 | 49% | 48% | Obama | |
2016 | 45% | 52% | ||
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(Excerpt) Read more at pewresearch.org ...
Well..
...at least it was a nice photo op with the grandparents.
What is more interesting is that in the US catholics are majority based in the cities, and city areas mostly vote Democratic, so it seems that Catholics are no different in voting patterns from other people in their location
to Dilbert San Diego - it seems not - but then why would Catholics have voted D is similar to why (until 2016) evangelical white families in the Rust belt would have voted D - that it was not a single issue
The Democrats made wild promises (which they never kept) and many people held their noses and voted for them
But thanks to Trump that is now broken
For me everything is make or break on abortion - if a Candidate is anti-abortion, but also wants strict gun laws and big government and his opponent is pro-abortion and wants loose gun laws and small government, I'm sorry but I would vote for the first guy but that's a hypothetical scenario - most elections are not that clean-cut.
My hope is that the D's move further left and alienate not only Catholics but also Hindus, Sikhs etc. who will finally realize that they can't stand those guys
But then you forget that most Jews are clustered in the highly liberal big cities.
If one looked at Jews from rural areas, they vote like the people from rural areas
So, the religious angle is one, well, angle. There are a number of other issues at play.
The Ds are moving so far left even those Catholics, Evangelicals and Jews who held their noses will stop soon or have stopped
As I said above - for ME the deal-breaker is abortion. I'll vote for any guy/lady whose opponent is pro-abortion, even if that first guy/lady has opposite views to everything else I hold dear. But that's just me, I can't vote for a babykiller.
Things are very rarely that simple to buttonhole into one box.
"Jews" are not ultra-liberals, but those in the big cities tend to be (if the Pew polls restricted to Jews and Catholics in New York city, I'm sure those percentage numbers would be higher -- as would various non-Catholics as well)
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