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Posted on 11/11/2014 5:36:44 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o
White Catholic voters have gone through many transformations over the last half century, from died-in-the wool Democrats to ticket-splitting Reagan Democrats to dependable Republicans. In the elections last Tuesday, they went through a change less political than demographic: They were the fastest growing segment not only among those who identify with a religious denomination but also those who don’t. ...
Overall, at 19 percent, white Catholics made up nearly as large a slice of the religious and non-religious electorate as secular and religious minorities combined at 20 percent.
Catholic voters overall made up a larger part of the electorate Tuesday, at 24 percent. The number is an increase of one percentage point from 2010.
The extra clout in the voting booth comes as the Catholic Church faces declines in many of its pews and challenges to its authority over its schools, civic groups, and hospitals. More and more Catholic parishes in the white-ethnic bastions in the Northeast have closed and Catholic bishops and university leaders have fought the contraception mandate in the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare. Catholics faced different challenges when 78 percent of them voted for John F. Kennedy for president in 1960 and a majority voted for Ronald Reagan in 1980 and 1984. ...
The share of white Catholic voters fell from the midterm election of 2006. One in five voters that year was a white Catholic...
Still, Protestants remain the largest religious denomination. They represented more than half (53 percent) of voters this fall.
The increase among Catholic and white voters redounded to the benefit of the Grand Old Party. The Pew poll showed that Catholic voters favored Republican over Democratic congressional candidates by nine percentage points, 54 to 45 percent. White Catholic voters supported Republicans over Democrats by 60 percent to 38 percent.
(Excerpt) Read more at aleteia.org ...
For you crunching pleasure.
Interesting, but it is difficult to read a lot into it, there is a world of difference between practicing Catholics and lapsed Catholics.
Too bad Catholic isn’t a race, and the overall effect of the catholic vote will never change much, with democrats still being able to win it in almost every presidential election.
>>>>White Catholic voters supported Republicans over Democrats by 60 percent to 38 percent.\
Hallelujah and praise be to God. Thank-you so much for this good news.
Did you read the story at all before making this absurd claim?
It is factual, not a claim and not absurd, What absurdity are you trying to claim, that the pro abortion democrats will be losing the Catholic vote in presidential elections now?
And Protestants will still be putting any winner - Democrat or Republican - in the White House.
Good post. Things are a-changin’
You stated that it will never change. How is that a fact?
The majority of Protestants vote republican, as a conservative that bothers you?
Do you want to keep importing 10s of millions of Catholic voters to feed the pro-abortion democrat machine?
Do you even care about the politics?
You don’t think that this will remain true and that the catholic vote will be pretty much what it has always been?
“”the overall effect of the catholic vote will never change much, with democrats still being able to win it in almost every presidential election.””
The vote seemed to break along racial rather than religious lines.
It doesn't take a political genius to see that.
No one can explain the black vote regardless of religion or lack of it, but then we aren’t importing 10s of millions of blacks to America like we are catholics.
The Catholic vote has almost always gone democrat, and that will remain true, it is what the left depends on.
The left depends on the Catholic vote taking over more states.
“The majority of Protestants vote republican, as a conservative that bothers you?”
Did I say it did?
“Do you want to keep importing 10s of millions of Catholic voters to feed the pro-abortion democrat machine?”
Did I say I did? Is that what is happening? I don’t see either millions of voters coming here (they’re illegals at this point and can’t vote) and they aren’t all Catholic.
“Do you even care about the politics?”
Do you even care about truth?
“It doesn’t take a political genius to see that.”
Geniuses are in short supply around here.
I think the “white” will outweigh religion in this climate; maybe white women are finally realizing what the future holds for them if their menfolk can’t get college educations, jobs, or promotions...
It appears so and the Catholics are a sign of that, the white Catholics are becoming more republican recently, this won’t make much difference in the overall catholic vote, which will remain what it has been historically, but it does support your idea.
"The Pew data is based on non-random, non-scientific polling data. It is scientifically meaningless."
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