Catholic Vote Is Harbinger Of Success For Clinton

[dgriffin]

By JIM DWYER
Published: February 9, 2008

Hillary Rodham Clinton has run away with the votes of Roman Catholic Democrats in nearly all the primaries, often beating Barack Obama by two to one or better, exit polls show. In New York, she received 66 percent of the Catholic vote to his 30 percent.

“I didn’t go to bed until 1 in the morning waiting on the results,” said Joe Quinn, a Catholic who is a building superintendent on the Upper West Side. “I slept very well, let me tell you.”

Does it matter whom Catholics like Mr. Quinn voted for in the Democratic primaries? By November, it may not. Still, Catholics, who make up about a quarter of the registered voters in the country, have backed the winner of the national popular vote for at least the last nine presidential elections, going back to 1972.

The Catholic scorecard: five Republican and three Democratic presidents, and one popular-vote-winning but presidency-losing Democrat, Al Gore.

No other large group has switched sides so often, or been so consistently aligned with the winners. Over that same period, a majority of white Protestants typically voted Republican, while blacks of all faiths and Jews strongly backed Democrats.

“Catholics are the last swing voters left in the country,” said Brian O’Dwyer, a Manhattan lawyer and a Clinton supporter.

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Hillary? Not this altar boy!

[Swimmy]

It's interesting to see such blind bigotry. How many of those "catholics" voted for hilary merely becasue she's a catholic and Obama is Muslim? I'm sure that's the only reason why mr. quinn didn't go to bed until 1 a.m. It only took a woman and a black muslim to expose the deep racism this country still clings to. And the media endorses by not running any stories to criticize it. I think the media too has chosen hrc as their pick.

As much as I want to see her lose, I fear the public is not as enlightened to how evil she is for this country and would make our current President look like saint. I fear she will win the presidency and my liberal friends from college will see what a true "dark times in our nation's history" will mean.

[dgriffin]

And I find the "Catholic swing vote" aspect of this story interesting. Being a swing vote group affords a lot of power. I wonder what they'll do with it?

[frankcor]

Ban meat on Fridays again?

[dgriffin]

Exactly! Do you think the nuns would have liked Sharia? (Am I in the wrong thread? It's gets a little confusing here with so many running simultaneously.)

[Swimmy]

It does get confusing, and with so many people posting all over, it's hard to keep up.