{"id":156,"date":"2008-02-11T17:20:53","date_gmt":"2008-02-11T17:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/feilerfaster\/2008\/02\/the-catechism-gap.html"},"modified":"2008-02-11T17:20:53","modified_gmt":"2008-02-11T17:20:53","slug":"the-catechism-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/feilerfaster\/2008\/02\/the-catechism-gap.html","title":{"rendered":"The Catechism Gap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why are <a href=\"http:\/\/polysigh.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/catechism-gap.html\">Catholics<\/a> supporting Hillary in greater numbers, and why aren&#8217;t more people talking about it?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If the Catechism Gap is real, this could be a problem for Obama going into the Ohio and Pennsylvania primaries.  Both states are culturally similar to the states where Obama ran worse among Catholics and both states have large numbers of Catholics.  In 2004 indicated that Catholics made up 30 percent of Democratic primary voters in Ohio and that Catholics make up 45-50 percent of adherents in Pennsylvania.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why are Catholics supporting Hillary in greater numbers, and why aren&#8217;t more people talking about it? If the Catechism Gap is real, this could be a problem for Obama going into the Ohio and Pennsylvania primaries. Both states are culturally similar to the states where Obama ran worse among Catholics and both states have large&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":352,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Catechism Gap - Feiler Faster<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/feilerfaster\/2008\/02\/the-catechism-gap.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Catechism Gap - Feiler Faster\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Why are Catholics supporting Hillary in greater numbers, and why aren&#8217;t more people talking about it? 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