Saturday, July 15, 2006
White Catholics may hold key for Democrats
As mid-term elections approach, white Catholics become the key voting bloc that can either hold Congress for the Republicans, or turn it over to the Democrats
Friday, July 14, 2006
by Spero News
White Catholics will decide the upcoming US elections, according to William Galston, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and former domestic policy adviser to President Clinton.
Galston reviewed the past 50 years of religious and political trends and how they will help researchers predict future elections, which the US faces this November when all seats in the House of Representatives of the US Congress are open.
Galston presented his research in a seminar hosted by The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life in May at Key West, Florida among journalists and research participants from publications like the New York Times, GQ, Fortune, The Economist, and The Chicago Tribune.
Democrats are planning on re-taking the majority of the House and Senate seats this November. Both chambers of Congress have been controlled by Republicans since 1994 - a mid-term election year when President Clinton, a Democrat, was in office.
Democrats see similarities between 1994 and today with a Republican in the Oval Office who has low approval ratings and in the middle of an unpopular war in Iraq. In 1994, Clinton was in the middle of the Monica Lewinsky scandal when Republicans gained the majority in the House for the first time in forty years.
But William Galston cautions Democrats of overlooking religion among the public which has been strongly captured by Republicans since a tipping point in 1992.
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Friday, July 14, 2006
by Spero News
White Catholics will decide the upcoming US elections, according to William Galston, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and former domestic policy adviser to President Clinton.
Galston reviewed the past 50 years of religious and political trends and how they will help researchers predict future elections, which the US faces this November when all seats in the House of Representatives of the US Congress are open.
Galston presented his research in a seminar hosted by The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life in May at Key West, Florida among journalists and research participants from publications like the New York Times, GQ, Fortune, The Economist, and The Chicago Tribune.
Democrats are planning on re-taking the majority of the House and Senate seats this November. Both chambers of Congress have been controlled by Republicans since 1994 - a mid-term election year when President Clinton, a Democrat, was in office.
Democrats see similarities between 1994 and today with a Republican in the Oval Office who has low approval ratings and in the middle of an unpopular war in Iraq. In 1994, Clinton was in the middle of the Monica Lewinsky scandal when Republicans gained the majority in the House for the first time in forty years.
But William Galston cautions Democrats of overlooking religion among the public which has been strongly captured by Republicans since a tipping point in 1992.
Read More
