Yes, Catholics are a democrat voting block, and always have been with the exception of 1972, 1980, 1984, 1988, and 2004, and possibly 1956.
Only one of those votes was against an incumbent democrat, the rest were reelections, and Reagan’s third term.
That is as good as it has ever gotten for us in regards to the Catholic vote, but that little period is over, and Catholics are back where they have always been supporting Obama both times, and we have no guarantee that they will ever vote republican again.
The Catholic denomination has traditionally been a dependable democrat voting block, and with a little burp during the last 40 years to help elect republicans who were already in office, it is returning to it’s home.
Catholic immigration equals to importing democrat voters, which it always has.
Your posts are hallucinatory, no longer correspond to reality, and no longer even use specific words properly.
Going back to 1952, which is 60 years, Catholics have voted for the winner of the popular vote 13 out of 16 presidential elections.
If Catholics are a Democrat voting bloc, then, well,... so is the rest of the country, LOL.
But a deeper problem with your analysis is that you seem to think that a group that gives roughly half its votes each year to each of the two major parties is somehow voting as a “bloc.” From wiki:
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A voting bloc is a group of voters that are strongly motivated by a specific common concern or group of concerns to the point that such specific concerns tend to dominate their voting patterns, causing them [to] vote together in elections.[1] For example, Beliefnet identifies 12 main religious blocs in American politics, including e.g. the “Religious Right”, whose concerns are dominated by religious and sociocultural issues and “White Bread Protestants”, who, while also conservative, tend to care more about economic issues.[2] The result is that each of these groups votes en bloc in elections.
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By definition, a group that roughly evenly divides its votes between two major parties is not a bloc.
“...but that little period is over, and Catholics are back where they have always been supporting Obama both times, and we have no guarantee that they will ever vote republican again.”
LOL! That's even funnier, as the Catholic vote appears to have UNDERVOTED for Obama in 2012, by a little bit.
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With that many exceptions, I'd have to say they're a swing group -- and that ethnicity enters into it, with Hispanics tilting the Catholic vote to the Democrats.
A 50-47 or 50-48 percent split is too narrow to serve as a basis for sweeping judgments about large groups of people.
But you obviously wouldn't see it that way. You'd have to be more open to reason and evidence than you are to be able to look at the details and judge accordingly.