NewsMax.com's Fr. Michael Reilly details the critical role played by Catholics in President Bush's election victory.
Exit polls are showing that President Bush has won the Catholic vote 51-48 percent, which was decisive in states that were the key to Bush's victory, especially Ohio and Florida.
"We trimmed 5 percent off of what Kerry needed in Youngstown, Ohio," according to Kevin Collins of Catholics Against Kerry. "Kerry needed 65 percent and got only 60 percent," Collins told NewsMax.
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Bush won the Catholic vote in Florida 57-42 percent (among weekly mass-goers, 66-34 percent) and in Ohio 55-44% (among weekly mass-goers, 65-35 percent).
Bush increased his margin of victory among Catholics in Ohio from 5 percent in 2000 to 9 percent this year and tripled his margin in Florida from 5 percent in 2000 to 15 percent this year, an incredible feat given that Kerry is at least a nominal Catholic.
Collins cited a massive grassroots RNC effort among Catholics in swing states as the decisive element in Bush's success among Catholic voters. RNC volunteers distributed the voter guide on Sunday to 80 percent of Catholic parishes in battleground states.
The voter guide highlighted John Kerry’s relentless support for abortion on demand, his votes to keep partial birth abortion legal, his promise to appoint pro-abortion judges, and his vote against the Defense of Marriage Act.
Based on exit polling, Collins believes that it was Catholic voters who put Bush over the top in Florida and Ohio. "No one who has won the Catholic vote has lost the popular vote since 1972," according to Collins.
The RNC's efforts among Catholic voters have just paid big dividends.
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