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 Mitt Romney, left, won more Ohio Catholics on Tuesday than Rick Santorum.
March 7th, 2012
03:53 AM ET
Loudly Catholic Santorum loses Ohio CatholicsBy Dan Gilgoff, CNN.com Religion Editor (CNN) - Rick Santorum, a conservative Catholic who is outspoken about faith-based issues, lost Catholic voters by a wide margin in Ohio on Tuesday, potentially a key factor that allowed Mitt Romney to squeak out the narrowest of victories overall in the state. According to CNN’s exit polls, Romney took 43% of Ohio Catholics on Super Tuesday, compared to 31% for Rick Santorum, and Romney beat Santorum overall by 38% to 37%. Read how Santorum fared Tuesday Catholic voters accounted for a third of Ohio’s Republican electorate, the largest share of Catholics in any Super Tuesday state. Delegate tracker | Delegate calculator “The margin of Romney's win among Ohio Catholics is surprising, given Santorum's traditional Catholicism,” says John Green, a political science professor at the University of Ohio. “Romney's margin among Ohio Catholics - especially in the three largest metropolitan areas - may account for his close win in Ohio.” Green notes that Romney, a Mormon, has consistently won the Catholic vote in this year’s Republican primaries. That pattern runs counter to speculation that Catholics would focus more on hot-button issues at a time when Catholic bishops are battling the Obama White House over government-mandated contraception coverage. Get the latest news on Santorum's campaign Romney has denounced the Obama administration’s contraception rule but Santorum has gone further, making social issues a cornerstone of his campaign. Last week, the former Pennsylvania senator said that John F. Kennedy’s 1960 speech in which the then-presidential candidate advocated an absolute separation of church and state nearly made him throw up. The Catholic vote is one of the largest swing blocs in the country, voting for the winning presidential candidates from both parties in recent elections. But the bloc is so diverse, including many Catholics who differ with church leaders on social issues and many who have drifted from the church, that many religious and political experts dismiss any notion of a “Catholic vote.” Read how Santorum plans to fight to the end In Ohio, the most contested of the 10 states to cast ballots on Tuesday, Catholics represented one of GOP primary’s main constituencies. Another major bloc, white evangelicals, comprised almost half of the Ohio vote, and broke for Santorum over Romney by 47% to 30%. One progressive Catholic group made political hay out of Santorum’s weak showing among Ohio Catholics, emailing reporters a statement titled “Santorum campaigns on divisive wedge issues, promptly loses Catholic vote.” Five things we learned from Super Tuesday “Catholic voters care more about economic issues that affect their families than they do about socially divisive wedge issues like contraception,” said James Salt, executive director of Catholics United, in the statement. “Mainstream Catholics want leaders who can address the moral challenges of our day like income inequality, underwater mortgages and poverty,” Salt continued, “not leaders who perpetuate a never-ending culture war that divides our community.”
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Even though I don't agree with the Catholic church, my opnion and from what I have seen, Atheism is the worse religion on the face of this earth.
I'm glad you called it your opnion. That is appropriate, as it really does not work as an opinion.
sam – It's a fact....not just my opinion.
Well rest assured if we seize power we shall be your worst nightmare.
We would be wouldn't we William? Tolerance, freedom of/from religion, freedom of choice, such scary ideas lol.
Look at all the "opinons" of the posters here. So many seem ignorant of the Catholic Church's real teachings. Bishop Sheen said it best when he said:
"There are not more than 100 people in the world who truly hate the Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they perceive to be the Catholic Church."
Amen!
Really? What most perceive to be the Catholic church is right! The pope thinks that se.xual as.sault on young children is okay and you somehow support this...wow! Maybe you should check out bishopaccountability.org for some actual statistics.
Guess I am one of the hundred!
Your Church is an abomination and needs to be expunged from the planet.
Agee. One of my favorite programs on TV is The Journey Home on EWTN. Each week they showcase a new convert into the Catholic Church. It is fascinating viewing and a refreshig change from the trash we have on most network television.
Apparently we as Catholics are doing something right when people are entering our faith. In my opinion, it is the best. Just my opinion, of course.
I have news for you Catholic Church, this rule of yours is one made by Man, Not from God. You are WRONG on this one. We are no longer in the dark ages. We will not follow you blindly, never again. Fix your own shop before you try to fix someone elses life.
Amen, Frank. Very well said.
Religion are men trying to reach God, but fail. They divide, mislead, are corrupted, kill, steal, and destroy. That's exactly what Christ said about what Satan will be doing and what Satan has done through mankind.
You seem very bitter. I feel sorry for you.
It is real simple. Romney created RomneyCare, so why would he repeal ObamaCare if ObamaCare is based on RomneyCare? Romney voted more on the liberal philosophy as govenor, why would he become conservative all of a sudden? Romney lost a lot to McCain, and McCain lost a lot to Obama. So, how is the major loser to McCain going to win if McCain was a major loser to Obama?
Now, here is the more obvious reason that most Romney supporters do not get. If you look at all the criticisms and ridicule by the liberals, mass press and commentators, it is on everyone but Romney. If you noticed Romney is getting supporters from the more moderate conservatives. There was an actual poll from an independent group and asked who would they support on moral grounds, and 70 percent said Santorum.
A big flag to me for not supporting Romney is when Obama wishes Romney well, which means Obama has no fears of Romney, but embraces him. Obama does not embrace anyone who is conservative, instead Obama name calls, instills riots and hatred from the liberals.
So, please quit supporting Romney.
This LIFE LONG Catholic will never vote for a person like Santorum – he plays to the ignorance of man – never. The belief that contraception is a "mortal" sin is a rule of "Man" not of God. I have told my Bishop that I know he is just a man like I am, and he is no closer to God that I am. And during this mess for the push to end contraception I have told My priest – my girl's were not born to be the "Church's" clown car, and asked him to report to the Bishops that if they continue with this push on the contraception issue I will stop giving my 10%. I have stopped my 10%.
That is good. That is what needs to be done.
You're not really a Catholic are you? You are a shill for the Democrats...
David, we've been saying that since 1517. Will your Bishops be moved?
Yeah... you're as Catholic as Romney himself is. Quit lying and go find a baptist church. That's where you belong.
Finally, an honest Catholic In Name Only moves on. Your 10% means nothing because you can't buy your way in. I feel sorry for your daughters and perhaps they will meet real men who care about their dignity some day.
We need to be realistic, if we are the partyof God and America we need to rid ourselves of this moderate son of Cain Romney. He is not a Christian, he is not a conservative, nor is he anyone I trust. He is Mormon opportunist and a tool of the Wall Street fat cats that think they own us. We need to stand for Rick because he represents us, the REAL Americans.
It's called CINO. Catholic in name only
CINO? You must be referring to the Bishops.
At least he is not a Mormon robot getting his orders from the planet Kolob.
BIGOT!
I think the analysis that Catholics care more about economic issues than social issues such as contraceptives may be flawed for this reason – If Romney is elected he has said he will repeal ObamaCare – which would eliminate the issue of Obama forcing the Catholic Church to pay for contraception and abortion. In addition to eliminating ObamaCare, Romney also brings a much stronger economic and business background to the table than Santorum. So with Romney vs. Santorum you get a net positive for Romney on the economic issues and parity on the ObamaCare issues. Santorum's appeal based on his religion probably pulled more Catholics than he would have gotten otherwise. He played his best hand and lost.
Glad that tolerant Liberal Atheists are posting here. How many more 1000 word invective filled essays are you going to write about how horrible religion is and how its like believing in magic and anybody that believes a supreme being is crazy?. We are coming for your godless party which stands for nothing in November. I find it odd the people that believe in global warming and alternative energy find something like a miracle so hard to believe. Miracles do in fact happen but you can't deny that the planet hasn't warmed at all in 15 years and that solar and winder are terrible inefficient boondogles. But its SCIENCE!
I am neither tolerant nor liberal.
Your belief system has some accountability issue, and my role is to see you get whats coming to you.
Run, but you can't hide.
You've never come so close to specifics, William. Say on.
http://evilbloggerlady.blogspot.com/2012/03/you-know-what-would-be-nice-if-mitt.html
Now that is curious. I would like to like Mitt. I really would. But here is the reason I am concerned about Mr. Inevitable...
I think all of the four former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, former sennator Rick Santorum, former Governor Mitt Romny, and Congressman Ron Paul are far more qualilication as leaders who love and care about this nation and their people than the purfumm obama is
Huh?
Your blatherings would be greatly improved if they made some sense.
D-, try again
[Jesus was an illiterate]
Fail.
Santorum comes across far more like a right-wing fundamentalist than a Catholic. And those folks usually hate Catholics. Catholics believe in distributist economics, and the primacy of conscience.
How could you possibly know what Catholics believe?
One thing for the voters is to kick this disgrace, distructive, disloyal, disfucntional, dishornest Obama and his political politicans out of office
Dishornest?? Is that what you get when you lie about being horny??
"I must be right! I'm using alliteration!"
Santorum is too crazy, even for the Catholics. I sure hope the Republicans continue attacking women's issues.
Cheers!
While I admire Rick Santorum's stand on his beliefs, I don't think he's the best option to lead the country. I still believe Ron Paul is the only real option if we want to break out of the issues we currently have.
@GodsPeople
Ron Paul would need to get someone to vote for him, for that to happen.
You are right about Santorum. He is a religious nut. He couldn't lead a girl scout troop.
Obama is the only true leader. If the Dems can take back the House and Obama gets another 4 years... This nation will once again be the land of the free. Santorum would make it the land of Jesus. And Jesus was an urban legend.
Cheers!
@David Johnson: Anyone with an active brain cell would vote for Paul. HE'S the true leader. I didn't say anything about Santorum being a "nutjob" as I don't believe he is. I just don't believe he's the leader Paul is.
Obama is not a leader. He's not even a US Citizen, and is not eligible to be president. Deal with it.
"Obama is not a leader. He's not even a US Citizen, and is not eligible to be president. Deal with it."
LOL This old chestnut. Keep it up, this is comedy gold.
@Sam: Actually it's proven fact. That "Green form" has been proven fake. There are no obama birth records for the US.
Donald Trump? Is that you?
Dear Mitt and Rick,
To bring you into the 21st century:
Jesus was an illiterate Jewish peasant/carpenter/simple preacher man who suffered from hallucinations (or “mythicizing” from P, M, M, L and J) and who has been characterized anywhere from the Messiah from Nazareth to a mythical character from mythical Nazareth to a ma-mzer from Nazareth (Professor Bruce Chilton, in his book Rabbi Jesus). An-alyses of Jesus’ life by many contemporary NT scholars (e.g. Professors Ludemann, Crossan, Borg and Fredriksen, ) via the NT and related doc-uments have concluded that only about 30% of Jesus' sayings and ways noted in the NT were authentic. The rest being embellishments (e.g. miracles)/hallucinations made/had by the NT authors to impress various Christian, Jewish and Pagan sects.
The 30% of the NT that is "authentic Jesus" like everything in life was borrowed/plagiarized and/or improved from those who came before. In Jesus' case, it was the ways and sayings of the Babylonians, Greeks, Persians, Egyptians, Hitt-ites, Canaanites, OT, John the Baptizer and possibly the ways and sayings of traveling Greek Cynics.
earlychristianwritings.com/theories.html
For added "pizzazz", Catholic theologians divided god the singularity into three persons and invented atonement as an added guilt trip for the "pew people" to go along with this trinity of overseers. By doing so, they made god the padre into god the "filicider".
Current RCC problems:
Pedophiliac priests, an all-male, mostly white hierarchy, atonement theology and original sin!!!!
Luther, Calvin, Joe Smith, Henry VIII, Wesley, Roger Williams, the Great “Babs” et al, founders of Christian-based religions or combination religions also suffered from the belief in/hallucinations of "pretty wingie thingie" visits and "prophecies" for profits analogous to the myths of Catholicism (resurrections, apparitions, ascensions and immacu-late co-nceptions).
Current problems:
Adulterous preachers, pedophiliac clerics, "propheteering/ profiteering" evangelicals and atonement theology,
Your "reality" is rather myopic.
Any parent that brings home their dead still born child to "show" the other children is a bit screwy!!!
Well at lest they didn't eat him!
They do tend to have canibalistic fantasies!
William Demuth
Probably couldn't figure out how to bake the kid into wafers...
Cheers!
I think catholic voters are looking beyond this battle. They see Romney as the person to beat Obama and the only real chance to stop the polices that impose on religious freedom. Remember its not about contraception, it's about religious freedom. Those folks on this board who discredit Romney for his faith should remember that too.
It is not about religious freedom. It is about contraception. If a church wants to marry a gay couple, the republicans then backtrack and oppose religious freedom.