[steve86]

I think that 55% figure, if valid, must be disproportionately weighted by big city residents as so many surveys are. In my smaller town out west there were NO Obama or Democrat bumper stickers in the parish parking lot and inconceivable that many voted for him. I mean, out of a parish membership of thousands, maybe a handful voted Obama for inexplicable reasons. Respect for life is a regular/weekly homily topic and membership conversations along the same lines are common.

[wmfights]

I think that 55% figure, if valid, must be disproportionately weighted by big city residents as so many surveys are.

There probably is a difference in %'s by region and area. I'm in Chicago and the vast majority of Roman Catholics that I know voted for 0. A great many of them regular church attenders.

[Richard Poe]

steve86 writes: I think that 55% figure, if valid, must be disproportionately weighted by big city residents as so many surveys are.

Yes, and let's not forget that many big-city Catholics are Caribbean Islanders (including Haitians, Dominicans, Puerto Ricans and others) who may have voted for Obama out of misguided racial solidarity, just as so many Irish voted for Ted Kennedy for so many years.