{"id":465,"date":"2008-11-04T18:50:02","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T18:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/stevenwaldman\/2008\/11\/breaking-catholic-shift-to-oba.html"},"modified":"2008-11-04T18:50:02","modified_gmt":"2008-11-04T18:50:02","slug":"breaking-catholic-shift-to-oba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stevenwaldman\/2008\/11\/breaking-catholic-shift-to-oba.html","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Catholic Shift to Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/stevenwaldman\/imgs\/election%20--%20faiths%20whites.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"election -- faiths whites.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/stevenwaldman\/imgs\/election -- faiths whites-thumb-500x177.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"177\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center;margin: 0 auto 20px\" \/><\/a><\/span><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/stevenwaldman\/imgs\/election%20--%20by%20faith.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"election -- by faith.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/128\/import\/imgs\/election -- by faith-thumb-500x177.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"177\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center;margin: 0 auto 20px\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/>\nThe rap on Obama during the primaries was that he couldn&#8217;t win because he struggled with Catholics.  Apparently, he got past that.  Early exit polls indicate he won 54% of the Catholic vote compared to 45% for John McCain. George W. Bush won the Catholic vote 52%-46%.<br \/>\nHe also improved among white Catholics, according to the early exit polls. Bush got 56%-43%  As of now, McCain lead by just  51%-49%<br \/>\nThis was despite an aggressive push by more than 50 Bishops to encourage Catholics to focus on abortion as the central issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rap on Obama during the primaries was that he couldn&#8217;t win because he struggled with Catholics. Apparently, he got past that. Early exit polls indicate he won 54% of the Catholic vote compared to 45% for John McCain. George W. Bush won the Catholic vote 52%-46%. 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