The President of the United States has not lost the support of the Catholic electorate according to a new survey by Gallup, which shows little has changed.
Bishops and priests have defined the new policy on the inclusion of contraception for women in health insurance cover “a futile intrusion into the internal governance of religious institutions.”
U.S. Catholics represent 25% of the American electorate, an important swing voting group in U.S. elections.
In recent decades Catholics have tended to vote for the presidential candidate who won the elections.
According to a comment made by Edoardo Ferrazzani on Italian online newspaper L’Occidentale, “The Obama administration has postponed the implementation of the executive order until after the forthcoming elections. A cover-up attempt that may not necessarily work. The milk has already been spilt and their final trump card, which looks like magic card for Republicans, has already been used in the fight for the White House. At last week’s C-Pac, very few out of the dozens of guests who spoke missed out a comment or two on Obama’s war against religion.”
But if before the contraception controversy broke out Catholic approval for Obama was 49%, last week it had fallen to just 46%.
A microscopic change when looking at the war the Church waged in recent days by the Catholic Church against the Obama administration, forcing him to take a step back.
According to Gallup, the role of Catholics in the American presidential elections is very important as it constitutes a swing voting group that can influence opinions more easily than others.
Pursuing a policy that is hostile to them, could thus have serious consequences on the electoral front.