Catholic voters in many states shy away from preachy Santorum
As a devout Mormon, Mitt Romney was the presidential candidate who experts anticipated could have a problem with winning over Roman Catholic voters.
Instead, exit polling from recent primaries shows Rick Santorum, a staunch Catholic who often references his religion as a factor in his political views, is winning far less of the Catholic vote than Romney. The former senator from Pennsylvania has yet to achieve outright victory among Catholics in any state for which data are available, according to Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion & Public Life analysis.
"He comes across as too righteous to resonate with the majority of the electorate, in my humble opinion. He complicates the message," said Joe O'Rourke, 39, a practicing Catholic from Houston who books hotel rooms for oil and gas industry workers. In 2004, O'Rourke took a leave of absence to volunteer for President Bush's re-election campaign in Pennsylvania.
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