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Pennsylvania Primaries: No Republican Exit Poll Pennsylvania: Religious demographics chart
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Commentary Democrat Where white Protestants went for Clinton by 58 percent to 42 percent, white Catholics split 71-29 in her favor. That was the worst showing for Obama among white Catholics anywhere in the nation, not excluding New York. In Ohio (so often compared to Pennsylvania), Obama actually did better among white Catholics (34-65) than among white Protestants (30-67). The explanation would seem to be that Pennsylvania’s white Catholics are more working class, more classic Reagan Democrat than Ohio’s, while the Keystone State’s white Protestants comprise many fewer evangelicals, and a lot more moderate-to-liberal suburbanites. In other categories, Jews went for Clinton, but by a smaller margin than white Protestants. Unaccountably, all Jews were slightly more pro-Clinton (57-43) than white Jews (56-44). As usual, those of non-Judeo-Christian faiths and of no religion went strongly for Obama. On the attendance scale, Clinton won all categories handily except the Nevers, though the More-than-Weeklies split for here by the narrowest of margins, 51-49. But the big religion story of the primary was the overwhelming Catholic support for Clinton--and the utter failure of popular Catholic pro-life governor Bob Casey, Jr. to move his co-religionists in the direction of his favored candidate. Republican No exit poll for what was a foregone conclusion.
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