Too many just don't get it, or are unwilling to understand what it is they are doing.
Here is Mass, it’s single party state (Demmy) so anyone who wants to get elected switches party affiliation no matter how stauchly Republican they are.
In the end you have Conservative Demmies (who are often more Conservative than the Republicans) and Commie Pinko Lib Demmies.
I myself originally registered as Demmy when I was 18 because it’s what my parents registered as back in the ‘50s and never changed (though they never vote Demmy). I finally gave up on them on the Life issues so when I registered when I moved I changed my affiliation.
I think inertia might be part of it....at least in Mass.
Though you’d be suprised how many under 40 Republicans I meet up here.
I believe that the catholic support of democrats comes from a time when catholic immigrants were not welcome in America.
They got ‘duped’ just like the other groups that thought that the democrats would help them, “The little guy.”
The town I live in has a large percentage of immigrants, or second generation children of immigrants. They still believe that the democrat party is the party helping the downtrodden and poor.
My in-laws are such people and we go around all the time on this issue. I don’t know how any ‘real’ catholic could vote democrat. But there are alot of ‘republicans’ that are just as bad, Rudy, Olympia Snow, etc. RINOs.
More puzzling why Jews back democrats.
Bishop’s fault.
Freegards
For the same reason kids love Santa Claus.
Why do Protestant, evangelical Christians vote Republican? Because “evangelical” = “religious right” = “Republican”
Both Protestants and Catholics have very equivalent proportions of Democrats and Republicans. “Evangelical Protestants” and “daily communicant Catholics” both have equivalent proportions of Democrats and Republicans. The problem is that merely nominally Christian Catholics still identify as Catholics, but merely nominally Christian Protestants don’t identify themselves as “evangelical.”
Actually, the partisan parity between Catholics and Protestants is even more remarkable when one considers geography. Catholics in blue states are far more politically conservative than Protestants in blue states; it’s just that Catholics are far more likely to live in states which are dominated by old-growth cities, which are prepondrously liberal.
The deciding factor is much more religiosity than religion.
The answer is easy: some people go to church for the wrong reason.
This Catholic will always vote conservative/pro-life.