{"id":25906,"date":"2010-11-01T11:59:33","date_gmt":"2010-11-01T15:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/11\/obama-has-a-catholic-problem-b\/"},"modified":"2010-11-01T11:59:33","modified_gmt":"2010-11-01T15:59:33","slug":"obama-has-a-catholic-problem-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/11\/obama-has-a-catholic-problem-b\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama has a Catholic problem, big time"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThe other day the New York Times<\/i> published a graph
\nshowing, according to polls, that Catholic voters pose a serious problem for
\ntomorrow’s election. Interesting. The red bar demonstrates that a 24% lead for the
\nRepublicans among US Catholics. 
\n<\/span>Remember, Catholics voted for Barack Obama, 54-44% in 2008. No poll
\ntells the whole truth and, in my are barely an indicator of what is really
\nthought by those polled. This poll is no different. However, if the pollsters
\nare remotely correct, Catholics could lead the way to change in the November 2
\n<\/sup>election from Democrat-to-Republican.<\/span><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n


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\"NYTimes<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n
Let’s be honest: Catholics are no
\ndifferent in their voting patterns than the general public. Sad but true. And I
\nfind this fact to be a disappointing fact. Discriminating who these Catholics
\nare as active (or non-active) is curious. The polls tell us that weekly
\nchurch-going Catholics in 2008 did not vote for Democrats, more or less. <\/span>
\n<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n

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See more info at Catholic Vote<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The other day the New York Times published a graph showing, according to polls, that Catholic voters pose a serious problem for tomorrow’s election. Interesting. The red bar demonstrates that a 24% lead for the Republicans among US Catholics.  Remember, Catholics voted for Barack Obama, 54-44% in 2008. No poll tells the whole truth and, … Continue reading Obama has a Catholic problem, big time<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[1999],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25906"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}