The most offensive thing (to me) that Santorum has said lately.

[mattkime]

>>The best thing about Rick Santorum and Catholics is that most Catholics are not voting for him.

are there hard numbers on that? I'm curious about the voting habits of catholics.

[Lux Interior]

mattkime wrote:
are there hard numbers on that? I'm curious about the voting habits of catholics.

I'm more curious about their sex habits. Or the habits their nuns wear. Or their habit of à la carte rule observance of their chosen dogma.

[beagledave]

mattkime wrote:
>>The best thing about Rick Santorum and Catholics is that most Catholics are not voting for him.

are there hard numbers on that? I'm curious about the voting habits of catholics.

In Florida, for example, Santorum got 8% of the Catholic vote.

http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/opin...te-627301/

Exit polling suggests that he lost the Catholic vote to Mitt Romney, a Mormon, by 7 percentage points in Michigan and by 13 in Ohio. These weren't isolated cases. In primary after primary, more Catholics have gravitated to Mr. Romney than to Mr. Santorum (or, for that matter, to Newt Gingrich, a Catholic-come-lately who collaborated with his third wife to make a worshipful documentary about Pope John Paul II).

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/arti...10ff65e6c8

In fact, Catholics in the exit polls tend to look more like the typical Romney Republican. Catholics are less deeply conservative and less likely to back the Tea Party movement. They have more formal education than non-Catholics and higher incomes, with 74 percent reporting annual household incomes over $50,000, compared with 67 percent of non-Catholics.

[Filliam H. Muffman]

Fro... Santorum has doing better with middle class and poor voters. Maybe all the Catholics that voted for Mittens were the massive turnout of the 1% that he seems to be generating. Entrance/Exit polling of people making over $100k in this cycles primaries is nearly double of previous primaries, and the large majority of them seem to be voting for Mittens.

[Grace62]

evangelicals love Rick Santorum, his fellow Roman Catholics, not so much.
http://articles.boston.com/2012-03-18/ne...ic-culture

54% of Catholics voted for Obama in '08. The Catholics I know are mostly liberal Democrats. They are not a group that fits into political stereotypes, as much as Mr. Santorum would like them to.

[$tevie]

Before my mother moved in with my brother, she lived in a seniors' apartment building. She told me a couple of times how the women in the building who were Catholic would mention that they resented having the "men of the cloth" stand in the pulpit and tell them what was right or wrong regarding reproduction rights. Some of them opposed abortion, and some even birth control, but they said they were sick of the men dictating this stuff. If this is how elderly women feel, I think it bodes ill for men who are seeking to get still-fertile women to vote for them while saying the same exact things.

[decay]

hey Rick: