Hi, I am a new young member here who is currently in my 3rd year of high school. My question is, do you think Trump's more vocal appeal to Catholics in this Election, more than Romney in 2012, helped more of them come out for him, and was also one of the key factors for Trump flipping PA, WI, and MI, since a lot of them voted for Obama in 2012?
Yes. White Catholics, at least those who attend Mass and practice their faith, vote a lot like White Evangelical Protestants--very Republican. Latino Catholics are more Democratic, but polls showed a 2-point increase for Trump compared to Romney among Latinos (29% vs. 27%). Catholic consciousness of being a minority within a Protestant majority country, which in the past pushed Catholics to vote Democratic, has all but disappeared.
