McCain still leads among white Catholics, who have predominantly voted for the winning candidate in the last eight Presidential Elections. Yes, eight. Every time since 1976.
I don't know what McCain is offering them, or indeed anyone else. It certainly isn't anything practical to do with abortion, for a start. Obama must close this gap. And he can. Let's see him do it.
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I'm a white Catholic conservative and I'm gonna vote for Obama. Bush has done nothing for us and McCain would do nothing for us.
ReplyDeleteAnd Barack ("Hide those Muslim girls") Obama would do what exactly? Bush has put two anti-abortion Catholics in the Supreme Court. Does anyone really think Obama will follow suit?
ReplyDeleteAnd they have done exactly what they are supposed to do: absolutely nothing, thus ensuring that Catholics and white Evangelicals keep voting, always against their economic interests, for what is also now the War Party. It's high time to let them know that they have been rumbled.
ReplyDeleteAnd, you will recall, Bush had to be forced even into making those appointments. With no Religious Right base, there will be no one to force McCain, running as an anti-Bush candidate, to do anything remotely similar.
The small, but still the best, hope is a President with a hinterland in the black churches.