{"id":294,"date":"2008-01-29T21:52:13","date_gmt":"2008-01-29T21:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/2008\/01\/mccains-catholic-support.html"},"modified":"2008-01-29T21:52:13","modified_gmt":"2008-01-29T21:52:13","slug":"mccains-catholic-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2008\/01\/mccains-catholic-support.html","title":{"rendered":"McCain&#8217;s Catholic Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"mccain5.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/211\/import\/mccain5.jpg\" width=\"125\" \/>God-o-Meter just got this memo on John McCain&#8217;s Catholic support in Florida from John Rankin, communications director for Sam Brownback&#8217;s presidential campaign, who&#8217;s been helping McCain with outreach to religious conservatives:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>McCain Wins Florida Catholic Vote by Ten Points<br \/>\nWins both mass-attending and non-mass attending Catholics; striking difference seen between Catholic and Protestant vote<br \/>\n\u2022    Senator McCain scored an overwhelming 10-point victory among Florida Catholic voters, by a 38%-28% margin.<br \/>\n\u2022    Catholics turned out as 29% of all voters, which was increased turnout from the 2004 election, where Catholics were 28%.<br \/>\n\u2022    This was a large 16 point difference from McCain&#8217;s performance with Protestant voters, where he lost protestants to Romney by a margin of 35%-29%.<br \/>\n\u2022    Mike Huckabee&#8217;s support among Catholics collapsed, at only 4%.<br \/>\nMcCain Wins Both Mass-Attending and Non-Mass Attending Catholics<br \/>\n\u2022    In a striking reversal from exit polling in Michigan (the only other state that exit polled mass attending vs. non-mass attending Catholics), Senator McCain won the mass-attending Catholic voter in Florida, 35%-30%.<br \/>\n\u2022    This was a complete reversal of Michigan, where Senator McCain lost mass-attending Catholics to Romney, 36%-41%.<br \/>\n\u2022    He also easily won non-mass attending Catholics, 40%-27%.<br \/>\nMcCain Performed Exceptionally Well with Hispanic Catholics<br \/>\n\u2022    Senator McCain narrowly won the white Catholic vote (which was 21% of all Florida voters), by a margin 33%-32%.<br \/>\n\u2022    By inference, Hispanic Catholics are assumed to have been 8% of all Florida voters. Senator McCain performed exceptionally well to win the statewide Catholic vote by 10 points. Estimates would indicate that Senator McCain won the Hispanic Catholic vote by a margin of 2:1.<br \/>\nMcCain Performed Poorly with White Born-Again Evangelicals<br \/>\n\u2022    Senator McCain finished third among white born-again Evangelicals, behind Huckabee and Romney. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God-o-Meter just got this memo on John McCain&#8217;s Catholic support in Florida from John Rankin, communications director for Sam Brownback&#8217;s presidential campaign, who&#8217;s been helping McCain with outreach to religious conservatives: McCain Wins Florida Catholic Vote by Ten Points Wins both mass-attending and non-mass attending Catholics; striking difference seen between Catholic and Protestant vote \u2022&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-john-mccain"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>McCain&#039;s Catholic Support - God-O-Meter<\/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\/godometer\/2008\/01\/mccains-catholic-support.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"McCain&#039;s Catholic Support - God-O-Meter\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"God-o-Meter just got this memo on John McCain&#8217;s Catholic support in Florida from John Rankin, communications director for Sam Brownback&#8217;s presidential campaign, who&#8217;s been helping McCain with outreach to religious conservatives: McCain Wins Florida Catholic Vote by Ten Points Wins both mass-attending and non-mass attending Catholics; 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