Why many Catholic women are voting for Hillary

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Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton acknowledges the crowd at a campaign rally at Arizona State University in Tempe on Nov. 2, 2016. Photo courtesy of Reuters/Brian Snyder .

By Patricia McGuire | 5 hours ago

(RNS) The gender gap in the Catholic Church is old news, whether the subject is who embodies the church’s teaching authority or who gets to make the big institutional decisions. Now, as this deeply divisive election season draws to a close, new poll results from Public Religion Research Institute spotlight the Catholic gender gap on political preferences.

PPRI data reveal that 58 percent of white Catholic men support Donald Trump, compared with just 38 percent of white Catholic women – a wider gap than just about any other religious group.

Hillary Clinton wins support from 49 percent of the same group of women, but only 33 percent from men. White Catholic women, together with the increasingly large Latino Catholic population that heavily favors Clinton, combine to drive Catholic voter choice to over 50 percent in favor of Clinton in the weeks prior to the election.

With the most misogynist candidate in our country’s history running for president against the first woman in our history to win a major party nomination, it’s little surprise that women favor Clinton over Trump.

http://religionnews.com/2016/11/03/why-many-catholic-women-are-voting-for-hillary/