How religious groups voted in the midterm elections

Interesting, Catholics are split evenly down the middle

What is more interesting is that in the US catholics are majority based in the cities, and city areas mostly vote Democratic, so it seems that Catholics are no different in voting patterns from other people in their location

to Dilbert San Diego - it seems not - but then why would Catholics have voted D is similar to why (until 2016) evangelical white families in the Rust belt would have voted D - that it was not a single issue

The Democrats made wild promises (which they never kept) and many people held their noses and voted for them

But thanks to Trump that is now broken

For me everything is make or break on abortion - if a Candidate is anti-abortion, but also wants strict gun laws and big government and his opponent is pro-abortion and wants loose gun laws and small government, I'm sorry but I would vote for the first guy but that's a hypothetical scenario - most elections are not that clean-cut.

My hope is that the D's move further left and alienate not only Catholics but also Hindus, Sikhs etc. who will finally realize that they can't stand those guys

Just looking at the religious angle without the location tells you little, otherwise you look at Jews and go "dang, why did 79% of them vote D and only 17% vote R, they must be (as eagleone said) not helping the Republic"

But then you forget that most Jews are clustered in the highly liberal big cities.

If one looked at Jews from rural areas, they vote like the people from rural areas

So, the religious angle is one, well, angle. There are a number of other issues at play.

It would depend on location. Evangelical city folks from the rust belt would have voted D until Hellary came along and showed them the error.

The Ds are moving so far left even those Catholics, Evangelicals and Jews who held their noses will stop soon or have stopped

I disagree with the term "real Catholic" - unless a person excommunicates himself, that person was baptised into the Church. The concept of cultural Catholics needs to end and it is ending thanks to the D's moving so hard left that it's nearly impossible to be in any way Catholic and vote for them.

As I said above - for ME the deal-breaker is abortion. I'll vote for any guy/lady whose opponent is pro-abortion, even if that first guy/lady has opposite views to everything else I hold dear. But that's just me, I can't vote for a babykiller.

As I said above, more important would be adding other variables - not only location (as I said) but also demographics, income, education etc.

Things are very rarely that simple to buttonhole into one box.

"Jews" are not ultra-liberals, but those in the big cities tend to be (if the Pew polls restricted to Jews and Catholics in New York city, I'm sure those percentage numbers would be higher -- as would various non-Catholics as well)

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