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Camelot Only Comes but Once? John F. Kerry and the Catholic Vote
Unformatted Document Text:  1 Camelot Only Comes but Once? John F. Kerry and the Catholic Vote Abstract Those who have believed in a “Catholic vote” as some unified bloc or as consistent “swing” component of the U.S. electorate should pay close attention to the results of the 2004 presidential election. The failure of John F. Kerry, the first major- party Catholic candidate since John F. Kennedy, to definitively win the votes of those in the electorate that share his faith should finally put to rest the myth of a Catholic presidential vote. The research presented here indicates that it was also a myth that most Catholics were primarily motivated in 2004 by “moral values” in making their presidential choice at the ballot box. Using survey data from the 1960, 2000 and 2004 elections we show that partisanship has grown to trump faith for Catholic voters due to a combination of demographic factors, changes within the Catholic Church, and changes within the U.S. party system. The defining features of anything that one might call the Catholic vote are in its fractures not its wholeness.

Authors: Gray, Mark., Perl, Paul. and Bendyna, Mary.
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Camelot Only Comes but Once?
John F. Kerry and the Catholic Vote

Abstract
Those who have believed in a “Catholic vote” as some unified bloc or as
consistent “swing” component of the U.S. electorate should pay close attention to the
results of the 2004 presidential election. The failure of John F. Kerry, the first major-
party Catholic candidate since John F. Kennedy, to definitively win the votes of those in
the electorate that share his faith should finally put to rest the myth of a Catholic
presidential vote. The research presented here indicates that it was also a myth that most
Catholics were primarily motivated in 2004 by “moral values” in making their
presidential choice at the ballot box. Using survey data from the 1960, 2000 and 2004
elections we show that partisanship has grown to trump faith for Catholic voters due to a
combination of demographic factors, changes within the Catholic Church, and changes
within the U.S. party system. The defining features of anything that one might call the
Catholic vote are in its fractures not its wholeness.


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