A crucial number: The percentage of white Protestants

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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.

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Am I wrong?

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Oh, I wasn't here when he had the old name.

'White protestant' isn't exactly an ethnic group, but white voters are identifiably different from, say, black voters and even different from one another regionally (in voting patterns).

Not that it matters. WHOEVER GETS MORE VOTES WINS! Within the states anyway, and probably in the electoral college too.

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LoL

No, conservative Catholics do not vote GOP because of "voter guides"

lol

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Which is why Minnesota is trending GOP... well, one reason at least. The Midwest is different from the NE.