Thank you for including the links.
If conservatives adjust their outreach to subsets of the Catholic demographic they might be better off.
In short, there is no Catholic political impact in support of life in those states reportedly having the most Catholics. As Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia put it, after the 2008 election, “[w]e need to stop overcounting our numbers, our influence, our institutions, and our resources, because they are not real.”
Life and Marriage are the two big issues Catholics "hang their hat on" to claim they are a conservative church. Yet where they are a dominant force we see no policy changes. I think their church leadership has been a little more conservative as of late, but we see it really doesn't mean anything.
on the flip side I can't help but wonder if a lot of the Evangelical vote that didn't come out for Romney did this because he is a Mormon.
I can read your posts, you don’t need to put me on your group ping list.
I think most of them didn't come out for Romney because he's a true blue flaming liberal and has the track record to prove it.
I cast my NY throwaway vote for president for a third party candidate and did catch a lot of flack for it. However, I totaled up all the third party votes, added them to the Romney vote and there still wasn't anything near enough to come close to keeping NY from going to obama.
OTOH, when I knew my vote would count for something, like our House vote, it was conservative. I also made a vain attempt at getting Schumer and Gillibrand out and it wasn't because they were Catholic.