Hillary Clinton won the Catholic vote after all, so dems should stay pro-choice, right?

[NCTraveler]

Amore accurate analysis of the 2016 presidential election than the preliminary exit polls shows that Hillary Clinton won the Catholic vote, so now I’m waiting for the spate of stories about how the Democratic Party should stop worrying about courting religious voters and hold strongly to its pro-choice position.

Clinton won the Catholic vote by 48% to 45% for Trump, according to an analysis of data from the nonpartisan American National Elections Studies by Georgetown University’s Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate. That’s compared to exit poll data that suggested Trump won the Catholic vote by 52% to 45%.

Now, as you may recall, Boston College’s Thomas Groome argued in a recent New York Times opinion piece that Clinton’s loss of the Catholic vote constituted a “watershed” and he counseled the Democratic Party to stop being so abortiony to retake the Catholic vote.

So, if Clinton actually won that Catholic vote, does that mean the Dems should double down on their pro-choice position?

http://religiondispatches.org/hillary-clinton-won-the-catholic-vote-after-all-so-dems-should-stay-pro-choice-right/

[bettyellen]

1. Fascinating fallout from a razor thin loss- everyone uses it as a wedge that's theirs own.

[NCTraveler]

3. I see the views expressed as very positive. nt.

[bettyellen]

7. As do I! I meant to say I like seeing this idea upended or debunked or whatever

You'd call it because there seems to be a laundry list of folks that want to wield this thin loss as a cudgel to push their agenda. Great OP- thanks!

[Norbert9]

2. Dems should stay pro-choice because it's the right decision

[NCTraveler]

4. And this shows the fall-out from the past among Catholics isn't the same.

I see that as a good thing.

[Norbert9]

6. Certainly

[Squinch]

9. Fascinating, isn't it, how no one seems to use "it's the right thing to do" in their decisionmaking

any more.

[tazkcmo]

5. The Democratic Party

Should do the opposite of what ever the Thomas Groome recommends.

[NCTraveler]

8. That is what the article argues in this instance. nt.

[caroldansen]

10. Democrats should stick with their positions. Democrats

are the only ones that ever make any sense. And yes she did win the Catholic vote, so yes that says it all.