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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Thu Jul 28, 2016, 09:27 AM Jul 2016

Trump Is Driving Catholic Voters Toward Clinton

By Leah Libresco


Donald Trump has held onto the support of evangelical Christians even as he has screwed up the name of a book of the Bible, said he doesn’t feel he needs forgiveness for anything, and struggled to answer the question that Jesus posed to Peter: “Who do you say that I am?” But, according to a recent report by Pew, Trump’s doing terribly with Catholic voters, particularly those who are regular churchgoers.

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Catholics who attend Mass weekly have increased their support for the Democratic nominee by 22 percentage points relative to 2012. They support Hillary Clinton at about the same rate as fallen-away Catholics; even though among white, non-Hispanic Catholics, those who attend Mass less frequently are slightly more likely to be registered Democrats.

In fact, Trump has done more to drive weekly churchgoers to the Democrats than Clinton has done to attract them. Evangelicals and Catholics who attend church regularly and favor the Democratic nominee consider Clinton a less appealing choice than Obama was.

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The share of weekly churchgoing evangelicals who support the Democratic nominee has remained nearly flat from June 2012 to June 2016, but their reasons have changed. Two-thirds of churchgoing evangelical Obama supporters described their vote as “for Obama” rather than “against Romney” but the proportions are exactly flipped for Clinton.

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http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/trump-is-driving-catholic-voters-toward-clinton/?ex_cid=newsletter-significant-digits

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Trump Is Driving Catholic Voters Toward Clinton (Original Post) DonViejo Jul 2016 OP
To establish my own bias, I am one of those non-believers, SheilaT Jul 2016 #1
FYI According to a 2015 study of religion in America, also done by Pew... Princess Turandot Jul 2016 #2
This is interesting. Remember the applauds when Kaine mentioned his Jesuit mission question everything Jul 2016 #3
 

SheilaT

(23,156 posts)
1. To establish my own bias, I am one of those non-believers,
Thu Jul 28, 2016, 10:07 AM
Jul 2016

raised Roman Catholic, long ago fell away from the Church and can't ever imagine belonging to one again.

But it does appear to me as if Trump has little acquaintance with the Bible and what it might actually say. And so the fact that self-identified Evangelicals would support him, shows how truly ignorant they are: all someone has to do is claim to be on their side and they worshipfully believe that claim, rather than take a closer look.

Princess Turandot

(4,787 posts)
2. FYI According to a 2015 study of religion in America, also done by Pew...
Thu Jul 28, 2016, 10:34 AM
Jul 2016

adults identifying as Roman Catholic comprised about 20% of the US adult population, but they are concentrated in the Acela Corridor, and the southwest. These are their percentages of adults in certain states:

RI 42%
NJ 34%
NM 34%
CT 32%

NYC 33%
NY 31%

CA 28%
PA 24%
DE 22%

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