03-22-2012, 03:35 PM
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.