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Media Transparency, September 27, 2007
Neocon Catholic leaders nurtured by GOP and Conservative  Philanthropy on 
their heels
Catholic voters migrated back to the Democrats in the 2006 midterm  
elections. Was it a temporary move or are they heading home for the long  term?
By Bill  Berkowitz
In the 2004 presidential election cycle, Catholics, whose vote was considered 
 open to both parties, were carefully courted by the Republicans. GOP 
organizers  -- accompanied by their neoconservative Catholic brethren -- brought the  
"traditional family values" mantra to the table, highlighting supposed 
agreement  between Catholics and conservative evangelical Christians on two major 
issues --  abortion and same-sex marriage. 
In the actual election, Republican George W. Bush wound up receiving 52  
percent of the Catholic vote, up from 47 percent in 2000, to John Kerry's 47  
percent. 
In 2006, however, Catholics, who compose a 67 million-person slice of the  
electorate, favored Democrats by 55 percent to 45 percent, according to National 
 Election Pool exit polls. Jeff Diamant of Religion News Service  reported 
that "Catholic voting patterns varied by state, but the overall shift  helped 
Democrats in several big states like Pennsylvania and Ohio, according to  John 
Green, a senior fellow at Washington's Pew Forum on Religion and Public  Life." 
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