{"id":8017,"date":"2004-01-30T23:19:13","date_gmt":"2004-01-30T23:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2004\/01\/the_religion_gap.html"},"modified":"2004-01-30T23:19:13","modified_gmt":"2004-01-30T23:19:13","slug":"the_religion_gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2004\/01\/the_religion_gap.html","title":{"rendered":"The Religion Gap"},"content":{"rendered":"

Peter Steinfels in the NYTimes<\/a><\/p>\n

The religion gap also turns out to be much narrower among Roman Catholics than Protestants. “Weekly Catholic Mass-goers supported Bush by a seven-point margin, in contrast to the 30-point margin among their Protestant counterparts,” Mr. Bole wrote.<\/p>\n

“When it came to Catholics who reported going to Mass a few times a month, the trend was exactly reversed,” he said. “Those Catholics chose Gore by a seven-point margin.” That contrasted with the five percentage point advantage that Mr. Bush enjoyed among “few-times-a-month” Protestants.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Peter Steinfels in the NYTimes The religion gap also turns out to be much narrower among Roman Catholics than Protestants. “Weekly Catholic Mass-goers supported Bush by a seven-point margin, in contrast to the 30-point margin among their Protestant counterparts,” Mr. Bole wrote. “When it came to Catholics who reported going to Mass a few times…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nThe Religion Gap - Via Media<\/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\/viamedia\/2004\/01\/the_religion_gap.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Religion Gap - 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