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A new TIME poll of Catholic voters reveals that Kmiec is part of a broader pattern. Although Obama was thought to have a "Catholic problem" during the Democratic primaries, in which Hillary Clinton won a majority of Catholic votes, he has pulled even with John McCain among that constituency - Obama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battle for Catholic Voters | 7/2/2008 | See Source »

There are 47 million Catholic voters, and while they are too numerous and varied to speak of as a monolithic Catholic bloc, they have long been a kind of holy grail for presidential candidates. The winner of eight out of the past nine elections has captured a majority of Catholic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battle for Catholic Voters | 7/2/2008 | See Source »

Republicans entered this election season from a position of disadvantage with Catholics for the same reasons they face problems with the general electorate: the economy, high gas prices and the ongoing war in Iraq. But they've also failed to embrace the model of Catholic engagement that Bush spent six...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battle for Catholic Voters | 7/2/2008 | See Source »

The Republican Party worked to keep them in the fold. In the late 1990s, the Republican National Committee (RNC) created a Catholic Task Force, and by the end of the 2000 election cycle, the party had compiled a list of 3 million church-attending Catholics. The RNC spent $2.5 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battle for Catholic Voters | 7/2/2008 | See Source »

But that was just a dry run. Four years later, the RNC recruited some 50,000 Catholic team leaders to conduct parish-level outreach for Bush's reelection campaign; the volunteers were led on the ground by more than 75 field coordinators working for the party. Their efforts were supplemented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battle for Catholic Voters | 7/2/2008 | See Source »

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