from Our Sunday Visitor - http://www.osv.com/OSVNav/OSVNewsweeklyNovember302008/ObamalostCatholicvotesinsomestates/tabid/7081/Default.aspx
Obama getting few votes than Kerry only in a few states - interesting!
Who got Catholic vote?
Obama's percentage of the Catholic vote represents a gain of 7 percentage points from the vote totals for the Democratic Party's 2004 candidate Sen. John Kerry. But while Obama won the overall Catholic vote, McCain won majorities of non-Hispanic white Catholics (52 percent to 47 percent) and Catholics who say they attend Mass weekly or more often (50 percent to 49 percent). But the estimated margin of victory among weekly Mass-goers is too close to the margin of sampling error for the exit polls to be decisive. Even in losing among these Catholic sub-groups, Obama made gains compared to Kerry's results in 2004 of 4 percentage points among non-Hispanic white Catholics and 6 percentage points among weekly Catholic Mass-goers.
How about Hispanics?
The exit poll results currently do not break out vote percentages for Hispanic Catholics. However, these do reveal that Obama won 67 percent of all self-identified Hispanic voters of any faith compared to McCain's 31 percent. CARA's surveys estimate that approximately 70 percent of Hispanics in the United States self-identify as Catholic.
Bellwether no more
The Catholic vote in Missouri may have an historical consequence. At the time of this writing McCain leads Obama in total votes in the state by just more than 5,800. The state has yet to be called for either candidate. If Obama does lose this state, one of the central reasons will be his inability to attract the support of a majority of Catholics. If Missouri is declared for McCain it will have lost its "bellwether" status. Missouri has voted for the winning candidate in every election since 1960 and no Democrat has ever been elected president without winning Missouri.
2 comments:
Stop worrying about politics.
You keep to the BIBLE and we'll keep to the POLITICS.
You odd ball priests ... stay away from the American people.
The true religion is the belief of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit in the hearts of the believes. Bultmann is correct. Jesus is alive in the inner self. Everything else was made up from repressed middle aged men.
Rev. You are young, you have time to find the truth in the Risen Lord. Don't be bound with rules. You have time to escape to the Church of Christ which subsists within the inner Chrisian heart of those who claim Jesus as their personal lord and savior.
Get away from the folk religion. We all know how Fr. Krishe at the lawrence center built the church. ... by brown nosing rich people. That's right. He held hught parties for the rich but screwed the poor! Shame on him.
The only way he and Monsignor Applebaum became monsignors was by brown nosing the former terrrible, terrible, Archbishop Keleher, STD.
That man did terrible things throghtout the Archdiocese. I hope one day the truth is known of he wrecked the diocese and people's lives. He got people excited about their faith, made promises, and then shit on them.
He eats and drinks with the odd ball priests in Johnson County. 80 % of them are odd balls ... became ministerie b/c they couldn't handle anything else.
What type of person would allow the laity to cook for them? priest ministry? How fake.
You priests need to accept Jesus as your savior, read Scripture and forget all those stupid rules.
Stop making history worse and making your pockets bigger with moneies.
Most of the priest need to get a real job.
You don't do anything most of the day but sleep and eat and tell dirty jokes to another before Mass and make fun of the Priesthood of the Laity.
God Bless and good night.
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