AmericanPapist Comments
Did you already count Abp. Gomez?
I've posted my explanation why Catholics can't vote for Obama and included a video. Check it out:
http://singinginthereign.blogspo...tion-
video.html
I found it interesting that in poll break-downs (non-catholic), Obama is favored by the age groups 18-28 and 50-60 by about 10% and McCain by the 30-40 and 60-70 by about 6%. What this tells me is that he is favored by the young voter (not a whole lot of life experience on your own), and the baby boomer (affected by the radical 60s social upheaval). Therefore, we may see 10 or so years of liberal leaning politics, but worry not, because generation Xers are more conservative.
What of the 40-50 group?
Tom Roeser has a great daily column. He is also a writer for the Wanderer.
its at: TomRoeser.com
Here's his post today:
As with all polls in this volatile election year, indices of ethnic support (excluding the monolithic 99% black vote going for Barack Obama) are chancy. Still, "The Washington Post's" Chris Cillizza writes that white Catholics have been a weathervane for presidential elections. In 2004 they backed George W. Bush over John Kerry, 56% to 43%...in 2000 Bush over Al Gore 52% to 45%...in 1996 Bill Clinton over Bob Dole 48% to 41%...in 1988 George H. W. Bush 56% to Mike Dukakis' 43%...in 1984 Ronald Reagan 57% to Walter Mondale's 37%...in 1980 Reagan 52% to Jimmy Carter's 39%...in 1976 Jimmy Carter 52% to Gerald Ford's 46%...in 1972 Richard Nixon 57% to George McGovern's 42%.
Now the number of white Catholics backing John McCain has purportedly shrunk. Back in mid-June McCain had 60% to Obama's 34%. By Oct. 24 McCain led Obama 51% to 46%. The last polling by the Post/ABC has Obama taking the lead with 48% to 47%. At the same time, I-as one Catholic-have seen more Catholic bishops taking the lead to point out that the pro-life issue trumps all others (as indeed it does). What's the problem here?
I would submit three reasons. FIRST, one out of four Catholics attends mandatory weekly Mass: due to the cratering of affluence and accompanying decadence and extraordinarily weak ecclesial leadership that has decimated all serious religious worship... as well as the lamentable lack of teaching from the pulpits. If you don't go to church you can't get the message... even when, in rare cases, the message of the moral law is imparted clearly and unmistakably which it rarely is in many parishes. SECOND, while we have seen more outspoken bishops speak out on the issue of life across the country than before, the number is still pitifully small. In this city-the command post of the Democratic party nationally, the campaign headquarters of the Obama for President effort, the stamping ground of powerful Democratic "Catholic" pro-abortion politicians-this archdiocese regards itself as having discharged its responsibility with one puny letter signed by ecclesial officialdom. To all intents and purposes the signal issue of this campaign has been muffled. As one bishop informed me, "after all, Joe Biden is a Catholic." God help us.
Commenting by HaloScan
