Sen. John McCain cannot win in November without the Catholic vote, which is around 25 percent of the electorate. How is he going to get it? The worst thing he could assume is that it is going to fall into his lap because Catholics will have nowhere else to go. Some people with nowhere to go simply stay home. Or they may go elsewhere, as it appears they have already been doing.
The Wall Street Journal reports that in "a recent survey of 19 states that have held presidential primaries this year, 63% of Catholics identified themselves as Democrats." That's up from 42 percent in 2005. Not a good augury for McCain.
Senator McCain not only needs Catholics who will vote for him, but who will each find ten other Catholics who will do the same. That is not going to happen unless he galvanizes the Catholic electorate. He has an opportunity to do this when Pope Benedict XVI visits the United States during April 15 to 20.
If the U.S. economy falls into a recession, can presumptive Republican nominee John McCain possibly win the presidential election in November?
Analysts and historians say not likely -- just ask Jimmy Carter or Herbert Hoover, sitting presidents who lost re-election bids in 1980 and 1932 against the backdrop of shrinking economies.
Past economic slumps have dashed the hopes of both incumbent presidents and the nominees of the party in the White House. The effects can linger after the recession ends, as George H.W. Bush found when he lost to Bill Clinton in 1992.
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Sen. John McCain cannot win in November without the Catholic vote, which is around 25 percent of the electorate. How is he going to get it? The worst thing he could assume is that it is going to fall into his lap because Catholics will have nowhere else to go. Some people with nowhere to go simply stay home. Or they may go elsewhere, as it appears they have already been doing.
The Wall Street Journal reports that in "a recent survey of 19 states that have held presidential primaries this year, 63% of Catholics identified themselves as Democrats." That's up from 42 percent in 2005. Not a good augury for McCain.
Senator McCain not only needs Catholics who will vote for him, but who will each find ten other Catholics who will do the same. That is not going to happen unless he galvanizes the Catholic electorate. He has an opportunity to do this when Pope Benedict XVI visits the United States during April 15 to 20.
Lew Liberal Walters: I highly dought Sen. John McCain will be taking advise from Liberals such as Yourself.
If the U.S. economy falls into a recession, can presumptive Republican nominee John McCain possibly win the presidential election in November?
Analysts and historians say not likely -- just ask Jimmy Carter or Herbert Hoover, sitting presidents who lost re-election bids in 1980 and 1932 against the backdrop of shrinking economies.
Past economic slumps have dashed the hopes of both incumbent presidents and the nominees of the party in the White House. The effects can linger after the recession ends, as George H.W. Bush found when he lost to Bill Clinton in 1992.
Lew Liberal Walters: I highly dought Sen. John McCain will be taking advise from Liberals such as yourself or from any Liberal Historian.
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