Why do so many Catholics support the Democrats?
If Catholics voted like Evangelicals the Dems wouldn’t win another election.
Some time ago I put forth the idea that most American Catholics prefer their government to more closely resemble their church: Power concentrated at the top, hierarchical, bureaucratic, and they don't mind their politicians to be rich and living in luxury the same as many of their religious leaders.
Protestant Americans, OTOH, prefer their government to resemble their churches: Power is concentrated at the local level, the laity have control over who leads them, and there's very little in the way of bureaucracy.
It's not a criticism, mind you, just an observation that people prefer to surround themselves with what's familiar to them.
If Catholics voted like Evangelicals the Dems wouldn’t win another election.
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If there were an I.Q. test, where the minimum qualifying score was 80, the dems would never win another election.
Most Catholics have come from economically poor backgrounds.
In the past they voted democrat because they felt that party represented the working man.
However the democrat party has been taken over by the socialists/communists.
A lot of democrat voters don't realize this and continue to vote for the democrat.
The democrat Ronald Reagan hit the nail on the head when he said -I didn't leave my party, they left me.
The cowardly Republican politicians won't call them socialists, and continue the deception by calling them democrats.
The same is true of most of the right wing talk show hosts. -Tom
White Catholics voted 59% for Romney, which was greater than non-evangelical Protestants.
http://www.pewforum.org/2012/11/07/how-the-faithful-voted-2012-preliminary-exit-poll-analysis/
“Why do so many Catholics support the Democrats?”
Because so many of them need proof of the ascension and see a ready Democrat/Progressive messiah every election cycle.
(Membership in the Democrat Party makes one a brilliant, intellectual, Progressive genius who doubts all those myths about some old bearded guy in the sky by way of brilliant critical thinking skills, instantly obtained after becoming a Democrat.)
IMHO