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To: Alex Murphy

“I dunno. How on earth is stating the fact that more Catholics than Protestants voted for Obama “anti-Catholic”?”

There are only 65 million Catholics in the USA and not all of them can or did vote.

There are 165 million Protestants and not all of them can or did vote.

I’ll apply the same measuring stick to both: I’ll assume one-third did not or could not vote.

Thus, if 50% (that’s what the PEW Forum says) of Catholic voters cast ballots for Obama that would be about 22 million votes.

If 42% of Protestants voted for Obama (according to PEW), that would be about 46,200,000. That means more than twice as many Protestants voted for Obama than did Catholics.

Remember, Obama got 65 million votes. What I just wrote above comes to be 68,200,000 so I am off by several million votes, but the idea that twice as many Protestants voted for Obama than did Catholics would still be true or darn close.

Thus, your question, “How on earth is stating the fact that more Catholics than Protestants voted for Obama “anti-Catholic”?” could be answered this way: Perhaps because it is untrue.


115 posted on 08/26/2014 5:22:54 PM PDT by vladimir998
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To: vladimir998
There are 165 million Protestants and not all of them can or did vote. I’ll apply the same measuring stick to both: I’ll assume one-third did not or could not vote. If 42% of Protestants voted for Obama (according to PEW), that would be about 46,200,000. That means more than twice as many Protestants voted for Obama than did Catholics. Remember, Obama got 65 million votes.

At this juncture, it would be helpful if you gave a definition of the term "Protestant".

118 posted on 08/26/2014 8:11:51 PM PDT by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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