patrick1
Junior Chimp
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« on: August 19, 2004, 11:07:42 PM » |
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Catholics do not vote in a bloc. The church is too heterogenous to vote that way. I have said before in other posts. Catholics are like most other voters, in that, they vote on the issues that are important to them. Hispanic and West Indian Catholics tend to vote Democrat because they agree with their economic and immigration policies. The church also has its share of single issue voters who would vote for Bush because he is pro-life.
Blue collar union member Catholics tend to vote dem, upper middle class Catholics tend to vote Repub. I do not see the Catholics as a voting bloc and they haven't been since Kennedy. Most Catholics are from the NE and the Mexican border, I think voting pattern has more to do with geography, economics and party platforms than religion.
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