Posted on 11/09/2012 9:46:30 AM PST by NKP_Vet
Catholics are a quarter of the electorate, and they voted for Obama over Romney by the same margin as the total electorate, 50%-48%. Contrary to what many pundits are saying, this suggests that the bishops’ campaign for religious liberty, waged against the Health and Human Services mandate, actually paid off: Obama got 54% of the Catholic vote in 2008 to McCain’s 45%.
Some commentators talk about the Catholic vote as if it were monolithic, and others say it doesn’t exist. It would be more accurate to say there are four Catholic votes: practicing and non-practicing; white and Latino.
Among practicing Catholics, Obama received 42% to Romney’s 57%; among non-practicing Catholics, Obama picked up 56% while Romney got 42%.
White Catholics gave Obama 40% of their votes while Romney earned 59%; Latino Catholics gave Obama 71% of their votes while Romney earned 27%.
From previous survey research published by the Pew Forum, we know that practicing Latino Catholics are less likely to support the Democrats than are non-practicing Latinos.
What this shows is that the more practicing a Catholic is, of any ethnic background, the less likely he is to support the more secular of the candidates.
Finally, there is a serious question whether non-practicing Catholics should be considered Catholic. By way of analogy, if someone tells a pollster that he is a vegetarian, but has long since been a veggie-only eater, would it make empirical sense to count him as a vegetarian? Self-identity is an interesting psychological concept, but it is not necessarily an accurate reflection of a person’s biography.
No, it is about data manipulation to prove a preconceived point, exactly what like the Global Warming crowd does. A more accurate analysis would categorize this as "more liars vote for Obama". Meanwhile, your effort to blame Catholics for all of the woes of the country, in the grand tradition of the Know-Nothings, is meaningless.
Don’t start with personal attacks.
This thread is about the Catholic vote.
Will Catholics ever vote republican? Probably not.
One time in American history did the Catholics vote against an incumbent democrat, the rest of the handful were when they went with the flow by small margins and voted for a reelection of a republican, 1988 was even that way, since HW was Reagan’s veep.
No, this thread is about people who lie about being Catholic and lie about the liars. Real Catholics do vote conservative and liars vote Democrat.
What you should be asking yourself is why anyone would trust any conclusion that is based upon a data collection method that does not concern itself with data integrity...Garbage in, garbage out.
Moderators are not adjudicators nor the source of truth. You are free to continue to spout nonsense and I am free to continue to rebut it. We will just have to see who has the greater endurance.
Peace be with you
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