New data suggest Clinton, not Trump, won Catholic vote

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Michael J. O'Loughlin
April 06, 2017

Political junkies sifting through exit polls in the hours and days after November’s election concluded that a narrow majority of Catholics backed Republican Donald J. Trump for president, despite concern from some Catholic leaders, including Pope Francis, over some of the political neophyte’s proposals.

But new data from a nonpartisan political science organization say, “not so fast.”

According to an analysis of American National Election Studies data by a political scientist at Georgetown University’s Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate, Catholic voters narrowly went for Democrat Hillary Clinton, 48 percent to 45 percent. Among Hispanic Catholics, Mrs. Clinton cleaned up handily, winning by more than 50 points.

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The New York Times, for example, posted early exit-poll results that found Mr. Trump won 52 percent of the Catholic vote to Mrs. Clinton’s 45 percent. Likewise, CNN reported that Mr. Trump captured 50 percent of Catholic voters compared with 46 percent for Mrs. Clinton. Neither reported the differences between Hispanic and non-Hispanic Catholics.

http://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2017/04/06/new-data-suggest-clinton-not-trump-won-catholic-vote

[Alice11111]

1. Not surprised at all. DT insulted the Pope. Catholics

are traditionally Dems, except when Karl Rove made abortion a big issue in 2004...to get the Catholic Church stirred up. The Church showed all of those abortion films...that had always been illegal anyway.

[Angry Dragon]

2. Fake News

Trump got 560,000,000 votes .............. according to Spicer