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The Disappearing White Catholic Voter
The Catholic Thing ^ | November 28, 2012 | George J. Marlin

Posted on 11/28/2012 3:46:35 PM PST by NYer

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1 posted on 11/28/2012 3:46:39 PM PST by NYer
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Ping!


2 posted on 11/28/2012 3:47:50 PM PST by NYer ("Before I formed you in the womb I knew you." --Jeremiah 1:5)
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Most of those “Catholics” who voted for Obama are pagans. They don’t go to church, they don’t believe in a god other than the state, they favor abortion and gay marriage. The media love to lump all “Catholics” together to try and show a fissure between Catholics and their church. However, I am confident that faith filled Catholics overwhelmingly voted for Romney.


3 posted on 11/28/2012 3:52:06 PM PST by rcofdayton (.)
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Unfortunately, too many Romney votes ended up being switched to 0bama or discarded all together. The regime is a separate country working within our own. They laugh at us now.


4 posted on 11/28/2012 3:54:40 PM PST by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America (IMPEACH OBAMA)
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To: NYer
the voting bloc that provided the margins of victory for Franklin Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Reagan, and the two Bushes.

For George W, that was in 2004, he lost the Catholic vote to Gore in 2000, and they voted Clinton in 1992.

5 posted on 11/28/2012 4:02:03 PM PST by ansel12 (The only Senate seat GOP pick up was the Palin endorsed Deb Fischer's successful run in Nebraska)
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To: rcofdayton

There are numerous pagans among Catholics.

Let’s not forget that “Catholics” started the French revolution with all its anti-Catholic violence. The same is true for the Spanish civil war during which many thousands of priests and nuns were slaughtered by “Catholics”.


6 posted on 11/28/2012 4:02:43 PM PST by 353FMG (The US Constitution is only as effective as those who enforce it.)
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I’m still here, LOL!


7 posted on 11/28/2012 4:07:34 PM PST by andyk (I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
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To: rcofdayton

See George Weigel’s recent interview with Raymond Arroyo. THere were two, this one is the first one, like a week before election day or so.

He claims there is no “Catholic vote”, but a, oh, now I am going to forget it, a faithful or a practicing religious vote.

Of course, pracicing Catholics can not vote for a pro abortion candidate and they know it.


8 posted on 11/28/2012 4:16:02 PM PST by stanne
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The biggest problem I see with this article is that it seems to imply that the Catholic vote will never return. On the one hand he says they’re dying. Are they dying at a faster rate than other constituencies? Are their offspring switching to other faiths? Are they simply not voting? (He says that at one point in the article too)


9 posted on 11/28/2012 4:25:19 PM PST by scrabblehack
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Republicans have not offered anything to family working class voters. They dangle abortion as they did communism to attract the Reagan Democrat voters but the GOP is no longer solid on social issues. But those no longer are they only issues.

Their jobs are shipped throughout the world, their unions busted, education costs have skyrocketed, as has health care costs, retirement plans have drifted away and they still staff the armies. The GOP has to become their supporters or kiss them goodbye. Right now they get the back of their hand from many of them.

10 posted on 11/28/2012 4:26:07 PM PST by ex-snook (without forgiveness there is no Christianity)
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The Catholic vote is not going anywhere, it is returning to it’s historical place, a permanently democratic vote.


11 posted on 11/28/2012 4:29:01 PM PST by ansel12 (The only Senate seat GOP pick up was the Palin endorsed Deb Fischer's successful run in Nebraska)
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Finally, in recent years a subset of blue-collar Catholics have dropped out of the work force for no apparent reason...

I'd say there is an apparent reason, and it's glaringly apparent concerning millions who are chronically on our various welfare programs. Do these great 'experts' and 'analysts' ever ask: what value do some people put on having almost unlimited free time, less money and material things, but all their time to themselves?

Of course, it would be extremely Un-PC for politicians and other prominent figures to acknowledge that, no, they are all hardworking folks just down on their luck, and would jump at the first job opportunity to come their way.

Everyone puts a value on their free time, and I think we have many who want as much as possible, even if they live a less financially affluent life.

12 posted on 11/28/2012 4:38:18 PM PST by Will88
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“About 650 Catholic World War II and Korean War veterans die every day. That translates into 950,000 in the last four years. Add spouses and the number may easily have hit 2 million...”

Someone is either quite bad at math, or there are quite a few 90 year old polygamous Catholics.

I’ll vote for writers being bad at math.


13 posted on 11/28/2012 5:38:33 PM PST by OKRA2012
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They’re too many cowards and commies in the Church today.

http://www.churchmilitant.tv/daily/?today=2012-11-28

Grow up.


14 posted on 11/28/2012 5:46:41 PM PST by bayouranger (The 1st victim of islam is the person who practices the lie.)
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The reason why the Catholic vote is disappearing from the states mentioned is because over the last 20 to 30 years they have moved out of state and are now making up the blue majority in other states.


15 posted on 11/28/2012 5:52:41 PM PST by Slyfox (The key to Marxism is medicine - V. Lenin)
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there’s a lot more to this subject. Read his bio to consider where he is coming from. Philisophically, Catholics are with the Dems on spreading the wealth to less fortunate, and are not on board with tough love. GOP does not get that point across. I don’t know what this guy’s point is about, or why he wrote it.


16 posted on 11/28/2012 6:07:53 PM PST by stanne
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Do a google image search for "obama and pope" and you'll see the reason why so many Catholics voted for the baby butcher; no thanks to Rome. The buck stops in St. Peter's!
17 posted on 11/28/2012 6:30:09 PM PST by ebb tide
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Do a google image search for "obama and pope" and you'll see the reason why so many Catholics voted for the baby butcher; no thanks to Rome. The buck stops in St. Peter's!
18 posted on 11/28/2012 6:33:03 PM PST by ebb tide
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Apologies for the double post.


19 posted on 11/28/2012 6:34:16 PM PST by ebb tide
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It seems most Catholics in the USA are a joke. They are nothing more than Kennedy Catholics and don’t really believe in their nominal religion at all. Makes this convert who was convicted intellectually of the truths of the Catholic faith a bit cross that cradle Catholics just don’t give a hoot, and are Democratic Obama-, abortion- and same sex marriage- believers first and Catholics a distant second if that.


20 posted on 11/28/2012 7:04:39 PM PST by Unam Sanctam
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