I will not contest that half of the Catholics that actually cast their votes vote counter to the tenets of faith supported by the GOP, but the other half have to choose to vote against other tenets of their faith with respect to issues of social justice, immigration, capital punishment, etc.
The misplaced effort is the continual harping on the conservative Catholics (i.e.; the Catholic Freepers) about the one forth of Catholics who vote liberal. It is literally preaching to the choir. As therapeutic as a good anti-Catholic rant feels, if the antagonists were legitimately concerned with change they would be taking their case directly to the targeted voters, not to the Catholic Freepers. If the GOP wants to make progress it needs to give a solid reason for the half of Catholics who do not vote for either party.
Blame shifting again.
The failure for Catholics voting liberal lies with the church. It's the one claiming responsibility for their spiritual condition.
They're certainly quick enough to take credit when it's something that makes it look good.
It's about time for the Catholic church to man up and own what it's membership does and respond properly to it instead of washing their hands over it and still giving communion and funerals to baptized Catholic members who oppose its teaching at every turn.
I looked @ The Census Bureau to figure out how many registered voters there were in 2008... (See) Voting and Registration in the Election of ... - Census Bureau www.census.gov/prod/2010pubs/p20-562.pdf)
They said 146 million in 2008...
Citing 3 references, this source -- http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/2258200 -- says that in 2008 there were 47 million Catholic registered voters.
So...Catholic voters were 32.2% of ALL likely voters in 2008!
So..if we extrapolate 2008 registration #s into the 2012 presidential voting totals...32.2% of 124.9 million 2012 votes = over 40 million votes likely cast by Catholics in 2012.
Over HALF of these 40 million voted for Obama...so I actually BADLY underestimated how many Catholic votes went for Obama in my last post...I said 14.5 million...'twas actually over 20 million...
And when you also figure in that 53% of Catholics voted for Obama in 2008...that just compounded the whole thing.
Bottom-line: Over 20 million Obama Catholic votes is OVER 30% of all of his votes...And over 20 million Catholic votes -- out of say 48 million Catholics who are registered to vote (I added a million new registered Catholic voters 'tween 2008-2012 just to be generous)...= about 42+% of all registered Catholic voters are liberal...and, actually, make the effort, to vote...
So this 42% even takes into consideration your dilution of registered Catholic voters who didn't vote.
42% of registered Catholics is far above your 25% citation.