{"id":527,"date":"2008-04-18T11:15:58","date_gmt":"2008-04-18T11:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/2008\/04\/poll-mccain-winning-catholics.html"},"modified":"2008-04-18T11:15:58","modified_gmt":"2008-04-18T11:15:58","slug":"poll-mccain-winning-catholics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2008\/04\/poll-mccain-winning-catholics.html","title":{"rendered":"Poll: McCain Winning Catholics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"mccain17.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/211\/import\/mccain17.jpg\" width=\"106\" \/>Despite unprecedented plays for Catholic support by <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/2008\/04\/catholics-for-obama-organize-a.html\">Barack Obama<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/2008\/03\/democratic-battle-for-catholic.html\">Hillary Clinton<\/a>, a Washington Post\/ABC poll this week finds that <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.washingtonpost.com\/behind-the-numbers\/2008\/04\/white_catholics_on_2008.html\">John McCain has an edge among Catholics<\/a> over both of his Democratic rivals:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>John McCain holds a slight edge over either Democratic nominee among white Catholics in the new poll, besting Hillary Clinton 54 percent to 44 percent, and topping Obama by a similar margin, 53 percent to 42 percent:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>God-o-Meter must admit surprise. The poll suggests that <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/2008\/03\/catholic-league-issues-8th-mcc.html\">the flap over John Hagee&#8217;s McCain endorsement<\/a> is hardly a barrier to Senator picking up hefty Catholic support. More than anything, it&#8217;s a testament to his remarkable appeal to swing voters&#8211;Catholics have chosen the winner of the popular vote in the last nine presidential elections&#8211;even in a strongly anti-GOP climate. This fact, combined with what has been Hillary Clinton&#8217;s decisive edge among Catholics over Barack Obama, should have the Obama campaign pretty worried about November. Catholics represent a quarter of the electorate.<br \/>\nThe poll is also noteworthy for that it reveals about the low priority that Catholics place on the social issues most emphasized by the church:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;.[C]ore concerns of the Vatican are low on the top issues list of Catholic voters &#8211; just one percent said abortion is their top issue in the November election, and less than 1 percent cited morals or family values. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Does that mean Catholics&#8217; support for McCain is totally disconnected from their faith, or just their church?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n6<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite unprecedented plays for Catholic support by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, a Washington Post\/ABC poll this week finds that John McCain has an edge among Catholics over both of his Democratic rivals: John McCain holds a slight edge over either Democratic nominee among white Catholics in the new poll, besting Hillary Clinton 54 percent&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-527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-john-mccain"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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