Like I said, there must be something in the water here in NY because those Catholics who are practicing Catholics who voted dem ARE cradle Catholics.
There was a comment on the RF many months ago made by a Catholic about NY Catholics. That was that there is something about the Catholic mentality that exists in WNY (Buffalo area) and he thought it was cause of the bishops who were in charge of the dioceses there. He said it was really off from what he encountered elsewhere.
Of course, that is the only Catholic I ever knew, being raised there and living there for decades.
After moving to CNY (Syracuse area) I encountered a different breed of Catholic. It’s still a heavily Catholic area, but for the most part they are quite different. A whole different mentality, although there is still my neighbor who is liberal to the core. And she tells me all her friends voted for obama because of the handouts, primarily obamacare. They want their guaranteed healthcare and medicine and SSI.
Catholics split politically in NJ and PA, too. Most of the practicing Catholics I happen to know are Republican, but, while there are some very conservative Catholic parishes, there are also some liberal ones.