It would go a long way if the Republicans ever nominated a Catholic for President to show more than their vote is welcome. In the meantime it’s the economy.
Gingrich and Santorum are both Catholics, but the Mormon cleaned up with the Catholic voters in the primaries.
Crisis Magazine
*Why Catholics Love Mitt Romney*
""Why won’t American Catholics get behind the very Catholic Rick Santorum?
From New Hampshire to Nevada, he has lost the Catholic vote in nearly every state where Republicans have gone to the polls to elect their nominee for president. The only slight exception is Tennessee*, where he carried the Catholic vote by a whopping one percent.
Instead, Catholics have gone for a Mormon: Mitt Romney.
(snip)
Romney is struggling among Evangelicals, however, and Santorum is not. ""
======= *BLAZE ANALYSIS: THE CATHOLIC VOTE WENT TO OBAMA OVER ROMNEY DESPITE CONTRACEPTION & RELIGIOUS FREEDOM DEBATES*