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Article: Catholics have clout in vote-rich states.(Special Report: The Catholic Vote)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- February 14, 1997
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Since Ronald Reagan won the presidency in 1980, much has been made of the support Republican presidential candidates received from self-described "born-again" evangelical voters. When the GOP nominated Reagan in 1980 and 1984 and George Bush in 1988, evangelicals supported them in overwhelming numbers. When the Republicans chose relatively unpopular candidates as they did with Bush in 1992 and Bob Dole in 1996, evangelicals continued to give these candidates substantial majority support.
There is another religious group that has not received nearly as much news coverage, but has far more clout: Catholics. Catholics constitute important voting blocs in such ...