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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the left loses Catholics when it talks about abortion instead of being pro worker pro family. The working classCatholic Dems used to be the life blood of the party [/quote]

Catholics get abortions at the same rate as other groups.[/quote]

Catholic vote is key . Too much talk about abortion this year will hurt Democrats chances. Come up with something else on the to do list /drawing board

In 2016, Donald Trump won 50 percent of Catholics compared to Hillary Clinton’s 46 percent. In 2020, Biden bested Trump among all Catholics, 52 percent to 47 percent.

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Nationally, about 24 to 27% of population is Catholic.

But all votes are not equal, because of the electoral college, this is why campaigns focus so much on swing states.

Follow are considered the swing states fo4 2024 along with their percentage of catholic voters. Only Wisconsin has more Catholics than the national average. Pennsylvania is close to the national average. 
                      % Catholic | electoral votes 
Georgia,             1%           16
North Carolina,  10%           16
Michigan,          17%           15
Nevada,            17%            6
Arizona             21%           11 
Pennsylvania,    24 %          19
Wisconsin.        32%            10

Meaning: 29 votes where Catholic voters can be more influential than the rest of the US, vs 53 where the average percentage of Catholics in the electorate is 11.25%, less than half the national average. Plus, the political views of Catholics regarding abortion is pretty much the same as the rest of the electorate. They were still having 6-10 kids in a family during the baby boom (a lot of them lived on my street) but not much anymore. I suspect evangelicals probably have both a higher birthrate and more likely to oppose legal abortion.

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