A NOTICE in the newsletter of a Catholic church in Bethesda, Maryland, a prosperous, largely white suburb of Washington, D.C., suggests that Catholic voters should consider one question above all others in 2016. “Who will do the most to protect and respect life and conversely, who will do the most to promote and even pay for the direct destruction of innocent life?” it reads.
If a recent poll is anything to go by, however, white Catholics, who have long favoured Republican presidential candidates over Democratic ones will not vote for Donald Trump, who has cast himself as fiercely anti-abortion in 2016, but for Hillary Clinton. This would be a significant change.
Catholics, who constitute the largest religious body in America—and represent around a quarter of all voters—are often described as a swing voting group. In the past two elections they have narrowly voted Democratic; in 2004 they voted for George W. Bush. But it is hard to imagine them voting Republican again, without a big change of sentiment among Democratic-leaning Hispanics, who represent a third of all Catholics and a majority of millennial Catholics. However, white Catholics have in...Continue reading
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