"a reasonable guess is that they would have gone more than 54% for Obama,..." Obama got 69.5 million votes, only 12 million of which were from Catholics. That means he got 57.5 million votes from non-Catholics representing a nearly 4:1 edge. Maybe you ought to look beyond your prejudices to see exactly who elected him.
Peace be with you.
Being prejudiced would cause a conservative to start creatively trying to defend and defensively explain away and keep away from examination, a large liberal voting block, to end discussing that vote or even republicans and conservatives becoming aware of it, on a forum of politically active conservatives currently involved in campaigns, and in an election cycle.
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05/18/2012 7:45:00 PM PDT by
ansel12
(When immutable definition of Bible marriage of One Man, One Woman, is in jeopardy, call the Mormon.)
These are old numbers, but everyone's support for Obama is down.
50 percent of Catholics (Catholics make up about 22 percent of the U.S. population.) approve of his presidency, down from 67 percent in his first six months in office.
DOWN 17 POINTS
among non-Catholic Christians, who make up 55 percent of the U.S. population, had fallen from 58 percent to 43 percent.
DOWN 15 POINTS
Mormon respondents, who represent about two percent of U.S. adults, fell from 43 percent to 26 percent
About 78 percent of Muslim respondents approved of the Obama presidency, down eight percentage points from when the question was first asked. (86)
DOWN 8 POINTS
atheists, agnostics, and members of other non-Christian religions, who comprise about 13 percent of the U.S. population -- While about 75 percent of these respondents approved of President Obama at the start of his term, their approval declined to about 64 percent.
DOWN 11 POINTS
Jews were the religious group third likeliest to approve of President Obama, giving him 61 percent approval. This too is a decline: in January-June 2009, their approval rating of the president was 77 percent.
DOWN 16 POINTS
Overall, 48 percent of Americans approve of President Obama’s job, down from 63 percent in the first months of his presidency. Gallup claims that its survey of over 276,000 adults claims an overall margin of error of plus or minus one percent.