President Obama’s support among Catholic voters has surged since June, according to a new poll, despite a summer that included the Catholic bishops’ religious freedom campaign and the naming of Rep. Paul Ryan, a Catholic, as the GOP’s vice-presidential candidate.
On June 17, Obama held a slight edge over Mitt Romney among Catholics (49-47 percent), according to the Pew Research Center. Since then, Obama has surged ahead, and now leads 54-39 percent, according to a Pew poll conducted on Sept. 16.
It is good to know that most Catholics know the “religious freedom” charade is a total fraud.
The RC bishops have no credibility. Most Catholics think for themselves.
@John Patrick
Agreed. Many Catholics have been around long enough to see through the false veil of Biblical hypocrisy.
I’m just glad Obama’s got this in the bag so I don’t have to go register to vote.
What a great citizen you are Isaac.
Many churches are slowly beginning to realize that they must embrace modernity and advanced thought if they want to remain relevant. Those that reject all things modern are the ones who are screeching about being oppressed and are trying to enact laws to control sex and gut education programs. Until these wacko medieval types are fully smacked down and no longer have their unjust privileges, they will remain a threat to free thought and modern life.
Daniel, you don’t know me. I am a great citizen. I fully support our President. He will win whether I vote or not. I’m going to spend that time making a difference in this world while you stand in line.
And thats the problem, isaac. People don’t vote.
If i had my way, the electoral college would be banned, and mandatory voting would be instituted. You cannot have a functioning dmeocracy if people don’t vote, even if they believe thier votes don’t actually matter.
And our democracy is barely functioning…
thanks to people who don’t vote.
OK, so one person’s vote doesn’t count much, does it? Multiply that by millions of others whose vote doesn’t count much and therefore sit it out.
This election will rest on which side gets the vote out. The right wing is trying to motivate their followers to vote – they could defeat us if they are more successful at that than we are.
And don’t forget, there are many more officials being selected in this election than just the top spot. The down ticket races need our support too!
Isaac, how exactly will you be making a difference in this world by not voting? I call B.S. on that.
Isaac, I don’t have to know you to know that you don’t take responsibility for voting–which means you don’t feel you have a stake in this country. I don’t understan how you can just not vote–how you can just not participate in this country and do this slight, but very important thing. And if you really think of voting as just “standing in line” that makes me think even less of you–again without knowing you. And the idea that you can’t take the few minutes out of your day to participate in our democratic process is just lazy. I don’t care what else you’re doing–you can do this too.
And so, Isaac, what if he doesn’t win? What if by some strange chance a whole bunch of people feel like you and don’t vote. Is it really such a great imposition on you to vote? People fought and died for your right to vote. In other countries people still fight for the right to vote and can’t. In other countries people look at voting as a great privilege, but not us. Not you Isaac. All that work and lives mean nothing to you because you just can’t be bothered. And what are you doing to make a difference that is so urgent and time consuming you can’t take a little time to vote–even get an absentee ballot. What is it that you are doing that makes the world so much better that you can’t take a half hour out of your day to participate? I don’t know you either but it just sounds apathetic.
Becky, it sounds pathetic as well. But a not insignificant portion of the electorate is just as unmotivated and oblivious to the communal responsibilities we share to make this world safe and sane for the weakest and most helpless.
Same sex marriage is the RC Church’s chosen battlefield for the last stand. The edifice of teaching on sexual and relationship matters has anti-gay propaganda (not the Biblical words used but the spiteful and uncessary tone of the the vitriol dressed up with that peculiar curial language which has become everyday) as its cornerstone.
To admit even a chink that LBGT persons deserve love is to open the door to sex as pleasure, marriage as a loving bond in addition to it being sme kind of proxy celestial channel for the direct creation of life itself.
They will lose but maintain they won, just as they carry on reagardless but do not control a women’s right to choose or contraception, nor shall they exercise proxy conscience on gay rights.
Ok, since you guys want to attack me, why don’t you tell ME what YOU do to better the community?
And what if a husband and wife were going to vote for opposite candidates and decided to just stay home since they would cancel each other out? Their voting would make no difference. So, Obama is leading in every poll! Why should I stand in line half the day when just like in the example above, it will make no difference. Plus, I moved recently, so I would have to both go register and then go back to vote.