About That Big Catholic Backlash Against Obama
February 15, 2012 at 1:55 PM Leave a comment
Hey, what gives? We were told there would be a big Catholic backlash against President Obama over the contraceptive issue but oops, no esta aqui:
Via The New Republic
The big Catholic backlash against President Obama looks like a big nothing, at least for the moment. A new poll from Gallup shows that, among Catholic voters responding to survey, the president’s approval rating is 46 percent – down 3 percentage points from where it was last week, but not a statistically significant change given the size of the poll.
It’s possible Obama’s numbers among Catholics will deteriorate more next week. But given Obama’s decision Friday to tweak the policy and the support he’s now won among less conservative Catholic leaders, like Sister Carol Keehan of the Catholic Hospital Association, such deterioration seems unlikely. As Ed Kilgore says, “If [these] numbers are even remotely accurate, the effort to mobilize Catholics against Obama on this issue has simply failed.”
The real story here is about the approximately 430 American Catholic Bishops who were behind last week’s freak out and the extent to which they are out of touch with their parishioners.
Entry filed under: Religion, Repression, Sexism. Tags: american catholic bishops, catholic voters.
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