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Catholic vote key for Trump in Michigan
http://marksilk.religionnews.com/2016/03/06/catholic-michigan-republican-trump/...on March 3, Mitchell Research & Communications released a poll that actually asked Republican voters more about their religious identity than whether they’re evangelicals. Conducted for Fox News in Detroit the day after Super Tuesday, it found that Donald Trump was supported by 52 percent of Catholic Republicans in the state, as compared to 42 percent overall.
Ted Cruz, at 19 percent, had the support of only 11 percent of Catholics. Marco Rubio, himself a Catholic, fared only marginally better among his co-religionists: 16 percent versus 15 percent. Catholics chose John Kasich at the same rate as everyone else — 14 percent. Ben Carson, then still in the race, was at 5 percent overall, 2 percent among Catholics.
Michigan Catholics are concentrated in the southeastern part of the state where deindustrialization has taken away so many good blue-collar jobs. This is the white population that gave votes to Wallace in 1968 and became Reagan Democrats in the eighties. Trump promises to bring the jobs back, which is enough to trump anything Pope Francis says about immigration.
Ted Cruz, at 19 percent, had the support of only 11 percent of Catholics. Marco Rubio, himself a Catholic, fared only marginally better among his co-religionists: 16 percent versus 15 percent. Catholics chose John Kasich at the same rate as everyone else — 14 percent. Ben Carson, then still in the race, was at 5 percent overall, 2 percent among Catholics.
Michigan Catholics are concentrated in the southeastern part of the state where deindustrialization has taken away so many good blue-collar jobs. This is the white population that gave votes to Wallace in 1968 and became Reagan Democrats in the eighties. Trump promises to bring the jobs back, which is enough to trump anything Pope Francis says about immigration.
When liberal Catholics feel free to ignore the pope on equality and reproductive issues, I'm not sure why anyone should be surprised when conservative Catholics do the same on economic and immigration issues.
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Well, by shortly I mean sometime in late April.
