55% McCain, 43% Obama - Weekly mass-attending Catholics 6,9
52% McCain, 47% Obama - White "regular-mass-attending" Catholics12
52% McCain, 47% Obama - White Catholic14
51% McCain, 49% Obama - White Catholics1,7,11
45% McCain, 54% Obama - Catholics1,4,6,8,9,10,11,12
45% McCain, 54% Obama - Catholic14
30% McCain, 67% Obama - Hispanics13****
xx% McCain, 67% Obama - Hispanic Catholics8,11**,***, ****
xx% McCain, 67% Obama - Hispanic Protestants and other Christians11**, ****
Here's the impact on "politics and the effect that the Catholic vote has had on our nation":
1) The single most important factor regarding how "catholics" vote is whether they attend mass weekly.
2)The same is broadly true among other religious groups. (Due to historical patterns - that have nothing to do with today's political reality & having little to do with moral issues, protestants tend to vote GOP more than Catholics.)
3)For Hispanics, religious affiliation is immaterial to their vote.
For Hispanics their religion does matter, the Republicans won 56% of the Protestant Hispanic vote in 2004, McCain won 48% of their vote in 2008.
The Protestant Hispanic vote is roughly 50/50.
If we could get the Catholic vote to just the level of the Protestant Hispanic vote, it would help us tremendously.
Are you going to try to get the political world and polling, to just drop the category of “the Catholic voter” entirely?