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To: Natural Law

How many Catholics voted is not the pertinent stat, but the percentage and the type of Christian group at issue, which my (referenced) stats included.

See here for chart.

Also,
Millions Catholics still favor Obama over GOP candidates

At the start of 2012, American Catholics prefer Obama to GOP picks. (AP)

With many American Catholic leaders blaming the current administration for a new requirement that Catholic employers provide birth control coverage, you’d think that President Barack Obama wouldn’t exactly be their favorite person right now.

Still, a survey conducted this week has the president beating Republican hopefuls Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich among Catholic voters in the 2012 race.

According to the Public Religion Research Institute, Obama gets 48 percent of the Catholic votes to Romney’s 40 percent and 56 percent of the Catholic vote to Gingrich’s 32 percent.

PRRI also noted that about half of Catholic voters also voice concern about the wealth gap in America and the state of the country’s poor, an issue that was the subject of a Romney gaffe Wednesday, when he told CNN he was “not concerned about the very poor.”

A majority of American Catholics went Democrat and voted for Obama in 2008 , the Pew Forum found, but had sided with Republican candidates and split down the middle in previous presidential elections. http://blog.chron.com/believeitornot/2012/02/catholics-still-favor-obama-over-gop-candidates/


205 posted on 05/20/2012 3:03:19 PM PDT by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a damned+morally destitute sinner,+trust Him to forgive+save you,+live....)
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To: daniel1212; Natural Law

Those were NOT Catholics. Those were CINOs who don’t know that voting dimocrat is committing a mortal sin. They don’t realize that the dimocrat’s have a plank in their party platform supporting abortion.

They are only CINOs, not Catholics.


206 posted on 05/20/2012 3:48:00 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: daniel1212
"How many Catholics voted is not the pertinent stat, but the percentage and the type of Christian group at issue, which my (referenced) stats included."

Pertinent? The numbers speak for themselves and tell a different story than what you are inferring. I am adding or subtracting nothing from them. Four times as many non-Catholics voted for Obama than did Catholics and only 1/3 of Catholics actually cast their ballots for him. Perhaps that is why so many of the anti-Catholics are ashamed to admit their denomination affiliations.

Anyone with any knowledge of the subject matter and basic statistics will not be swayed by deceptive presentations and intellectually dishonest extrapolation to prove a point.

Peace be with you.

211 posted on 05/20/2012 8:01:17 PM PDT by Natural Law (Mary was the face that God chose for Himself.)
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