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To: P-Marlowe
I'd venture to guess that there is no real difference between number of Catholics and Protestants who go to church every Sunday and who voted for Obama and the Catholics and Protestants who rarely go to Church who voted for Obama. It's about 50/50.

Wrong, unfortunately. There's a correlation between frequency of attendance and conservatism. While not the whole voting chart, here's the relevant subset:

65% McCain, xx% Obama - Weekly church-attending Protestants7
55% McCain, 43% Obama - Weekly mass-attending Catholics 6,9
54% McCain, 44% Obama - Weekly church-goers1,4,7,12
54% McCain, 45% Obama - Protestants6,8
52% McCain, 47% Obama - White "regular-mass-attending" Catholics12
46% McCain, 52% Obama - Non-Evangelical Protestants 12
xx% McCain, 53% Obama - Monthly church-goers 4**
45% McCain, 54% Obama - Catholics1,4,6,8,9,10,11,12
xx% McCain, 59% Obama - Semi-annual church-goers4**
38% McCain, 61% Obama - Occasional churchgoers1
37% McCain, 61% Obama - Non-weekly-mass-attending Catholics6,12
xx% McCain, 68% Obama - Don't attend church4 **
23% McCain, 75% Obama - Unaffliliated with any religion11

110 posted on 11/11/2008 8:28:08 AM PST by Alex Murphy ( "Every country has the government it deserves" - Joseph Marie de Maistre)
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To: Alex Murphy; P-Marlowe
65% McCain, xx% Obama - Weekly church-attending Protestants7

I am assuming this figure includes Blacks and Hispanics, bringing the 75% figure for White protestants as a sub group down to 65% for all Protestants. I'm figuring the Hispanic figure doesn't impact the Protestant % as much as Blacks because more of them are Roman Catholic.

118 posted on 11/12/2008 9:07:50 AM PST by wmfights (Elections have Consequences!)
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