This is an interesting article, and is mostly accurate. But it only covers white Catholics. There are other divisions among Catholics. For example, Hispanic Catholics and white Catholics vote differently. Also, Hispanic voters aren't totally monolitic. The 'Rats still do fairly well among observant Catholics of Puerto Rican, Dominican, and Mexican heritage. African-American Catholics are a small number, but they appear to be more independent than other African-Americans.
There need to be more articles regarding this topic, and more in-depth.
This article is crap. The very notion of a "Catholic" vote is ridiculous.
Ping
Ok, now we're up to 23 groups that will "decide" the election. All these stories are a total waste of time.
The Catholic vote can make all the difference in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan. Unfortunately, you can fit all the devout Catholics in my home state (which is the same as George Marlin's) in a phone booth it seems. Bush will NOT win "Catholic" New York, Rhode Island or Massachusetts.
This catholic is voting for W.
W stands for wonderful, wise & WINNER
There is a black vote, which is sad.
But it is what it is.
White blue collar Catholics have gone the way of the three-toed Sloth in the northeast. Upward mobility (touched upon in this article) killed the culture that certain people like to idealize (I for one am happy that my parents, aunts and uncles chose the white collar path to upward mobility).
Life in the rowhouses was not as great as people like to make it out to be.
This Catholic(albeit not always a good one) is voting for Bush.
VOTE CATHOLIC
NOT KERRY
bumper strip to my car. I live in a heavily Hispanic community and my car seems to spend a lot of time in the church parking lot. Who knows, maybe it will cause some thinking to occur that otherwise wouldn't.
The stickers are available at catholicsagainstkerry.com, BTW.
The Democrats are likely to lose the Catholic vote in November—and John Kerry could well lose the election as a result.