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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It?

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To: Geoff Altman who wrote (48593)9/24/2008 3:12:29 PM
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You fell for the straw man. Catholics don't vote as a block - not even close. Blacks are the only group I am aware of voting 90-10 in this election. I think that is racist of them.

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The Catholic Vote

In a post recently, I discussed recently released Pew Research Center data that including some interesting findings on religion and politics. Here's another: according to Pew data pooled from May and June, Kerry is leading Bush by a point among white Catholics. That may not sound like much, but in 2000 Gore lost white Catholics by 7 points.

Also in 2000, Gore carried all Catholic voters by 3 points, even as he was losing white Catholics by that 7 point margin. That suggests that a one point margin among white Catholics implies a substantially larger margin among Catholics as a whole.

And, in fact, a recent Gallup report, based on Gallup's late May and early June polls, does indicate that Kerry is running a solid lead among all Catholics. According to that report, Kerry leads Bush among Catholic RVs, 50-42. And note that Kerry has gained much ground since Jan
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