In a lot of places, Kerry is going to get butchered with Catholic voters. In fact, religious Catholics are equally conservative to religious Protestants.
The national Catholic numbers are dragged left by non-observant 'Catholics,' particularly in the Northeast, and hispanic voters (all of whom are Catholic, many of whom are Democrats).
Bottom line is that Kerry gets killed among white voters and particularly religious white voters. And there's no energy in the minority communities for Kerry, not to the kind of energy he is going to need.
The only reason "observant" Catholics vote Republican is because the bloodsucking Archbishops (a la Anthony Bevilacqua) publish these voter guides that basically paint the Democrat as garbage and ignores other issues. The Pope himself is more of a Democrat on social justice, but these bishops and Cardinals refuse to listen and only want to extenuate the issues the Republicna party want spelled out. I wonder if there are times corporations are in bed with the Catholic Church. It's funny I'm posting this because way back in 1987-1988 when I was 7 and 8 I wanted to become a Catholic priest. I'm 24 and now I can no longer see myself being a Catholci ebcause of these bureaucratic f-ups.
