Obama's Catholic Vote - Part 2

Obama’s Catholic Vote – Part 2
The website – cinops be gone – Saturday, November 29, 2008
In Part 2, we list the other four states. Catholic Daily, www.catholic.com , 11-10-08

New Jersey, where Catholics make up 41% of the general population, voted 57% in favor of Obama.
Sixth on the list was Nevada, where 32.3 % of the population is Catholic. Nevadans voted 55% for Obama.
Catholics comprise 29.7% of the population of Delaware, where Obama received 62% of the vote.
In Wisconsin, Catholics are 29.5 % of the overall state population. There Obama received 56% of the vote.

I believe the race sympathy factor decided the election for Obama. Also, had Obama been a pro-life black person he would not have gotten the nomination of the Democratic party? Let us study the CNS story by Patricia Zapor, Election-Catholic (updated) Nov-6/08:

Nationwide, 54 percent of Catholics supported Obama and 44 percent voted for McCain. Of the total population, 52 percent voted for Obama and 46% for McCain.
By comparison, 52% of Catholics in 2004 supported Republican President George W. Bush and 47% voted for Democratic Sen. John Kerry. The total vote in 2004 was 51 % for Bush and 48% for Kerry….

The exit polls divided voters into “all Catholics” or white, non-Hispanic
Catholics. In the latter group, the shift toward the Democratic candidate was less pronounced than among Catholics overall. 51% of white Catholics supported McCain, and 47 % voted for Obama. Majorities of white Catholics also voted for Bush in both elections, by 56% in 2004 and 52% in 2000.

Approximately 40% of U.S. Catholics are Hispanic and another 3 % are African-American. Asian and Pacific Islanders constitute about 4%.
Latinos nationwide voted for Obama by 67% to 31% for McCain. African-Americans voted for Obama by 95% to 4%. Asians supported Obama by 62% to 35%.

In some states, Obama’s gains among Catholics were more substantial than the general picture. In Indiana in 2004, for example, Catholics supported Bush by 56% to 43%. This year in that state, Catholics were split evenly between Obama and McCain….

The analysts agreed that voters based their election choices primarily on issues such as the economy, health care and the war in Iraq, rather than on issues typically identified as major religious concerns: abortion and same-sex marriage. …(Thanks to a corrupt media!)

An interesting and poignant Pope John Paul II comment was made by bishop Joseph F. Martino of Scranton, Pa. He issued a letter to his diocese and later a video saying abortion outweighed all other issues in voting. He also arrived unexpectedly at a political forum at a parish and the USCCB document (“Faithful Citizenship”) was not relevant in his diocese. “The USCCB doesn’t speak for me,” the local newspaper, the Wayne Independent, quoted him as saying at St. John’s Catholic Church. “The only relevant document … is my letter.”(In Pa., Catholics voted for McCain 52% to 48% for Obama.)
George H .Kubeck