...according to William Galston, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and former domestic policy adviser to President Clinton.
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...Galston's research showed a significant swing among practicing Catholics - 17 points toward Bush - and there was also a large increase in their turnout - 12 percent. "The real story of the 2004 election was much more about Catholics than it was about Protestants," he said.
"Despite the well-advertised decline of mainline Protestants, which is a genuine phenomenon, that arguably evangelical Protestants, as a percentage of the total population, peaked about 15 years ago and has been relatively stable ever since," Galston continued, "The real story of American politics in the next 10 years will be written as much around the behavior of Catholics, persuadable Catholics, as it is around the mobilization of traditionalist evangelical Protestants.”
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Religion and politics isn't going to go away, Galston believes. He said, "I think that there are a lot of Catholics, moderate evangelicals and modernists who aren't crazy, who recognize that in the United States in particular, a simply secularist stance by a great political party is a formula for defeat and irrelevance."
Once again faithful Catholics will need to mobilize and hand out the Catholic Answers Voters Guide and other similar materials. We need to pray that more bishops and priests will preach the Gospel, especially the Gospel of Life. We are in an on-going battle for the protection of the lives of the innocent. When the God-given right to life is diminished or weakened by the State or society, all other rights will follow. We then become objects of a tyrannical enslavement.
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