I'm not so sure. We know many observant Catholics who attend mass regularly, send their children to Catholic school with princess riverdawg, etc. but have Obama bumper stickers on their vehicles.
Riverdawg,
I’m sorry that you’ve seen so many Obama stickers at your kids’ Catholic school. Glad to say that that has not been my experience, as at our kids’ school, McCain had an overwhelming advantage.
I know it’s not scientific or anything, but the day before the real election, the school held a mock election for the upper grades (4-8). My oldest son came home ecstatic because McCain won by a whopping 82%-16% (some voted for Ralph Nader). I asked him who voted for Obama and he gave me the names of those he knew — they were the few non-Catholics in his grade. (They were also black.) Interestingly enough, the black kids who ARE Catholic voted McCain.
Needless to say, my son was bitterly disappointed last Wednesday morning.
As an aside, my youngest son recently forgot a book he needed for homework and we went back to school to fetch it. We arrived at the same time as the CCD kids were arriving for religious ed. The parking lot held many cars with Obama stickers — and they were NOT black families. There is a definite split between those who take their Catholicism seriously and those who don’t.
BTW, I live on Long Island in an area that went for McCain at the same rate as Mass-going Catholics: 54%-46%. That’s a pretty high number for Metro NY.
Regards,