Obama surging among Catholics

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Most Christians I know would change their name to something that's Christian - not Muslim.

Barack Obama was born with the same name that he currently has, you see.

He doesn't seem to see much of anything, so I don't see how this will be the exception.

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Most Christians I know would change their name to something that's Christian - not Muslim.

Interesting coming from a poster whose handle indicates a sad devotion to another ancient religion.

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The ability to destroy a candidate is insignificant next to the power of the Force.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Anyways, if this is actually what's happening, then he wins the election easily. It's also quite the turnaround - and maybe one with interesting implications for the Congressional elections - from 2010 and also (if we remember NY-9 and so on) 2011. And if all of this is so (given that, propaganda and 'relative to country x' stuff aside, the economy is actually still sh!te - the material factors that caused the electoral damage are still kicking around), then the wisdom of nominating a candidate such as Romney to run against him...

[dspNY]

Even up among non-Latino Catholics and a huge advantage with Latino Catholics equals a comfortable victory for Obama nationwide because they somewhat offset the evangelicals

[traininthedistance]

It's also quite the turnaround - and maybe one with interesting implications for the Congressional elections - from 2010 and also (if we remember NY-9 and so on) 2011.

FWIW, I'm pretty sure that that NY-9 was less about Catholics turning against the Democratic Party and more about the Hasidic vote.  It's not something that can really be extended to a whole lot of other districts, though I'm sure it's a help for Nan Hayworth.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

It's also quite the turnaround - and maybe one with interesting implications for the Congressional elections - from 2010 and also (if we remember NY-9 and so on) 2011.

FWIW, I'm pretty sure that that NY-9 was less about Catholics turning against the Democratic Party and more about the Hasidic vote.  It's not something that can really be extended to a whole lot of other districts, though I'm sure it's a help for Nan Hayworth.

O.K, let's be less cryptic. Though as this is an insomnia post, only slightly. American Catholics do not actually vote 'as Catholics', for the most part. Haven't done for ages. But it happens that Catholicism is a shared characteristic of large parts of that traditionally Democratic part of the electorate that never really went head over heels for Obama.

Of course as regards NY-9 specifically... as some idiot pointed out at the time it isn't actually Tel Aviv West (or Bnei Brak West either, for that matter), despite a certain tendency to assume that it must be. Suffice to say that all kinds of things were going on and all at the same time and that this was necessary for the district to be lost... but also that the district's (actually quite substantial) Catholic population mostly voted in the same general direction as the guys with the beards and the black hats.