Talk about your outliers...
So, the Barna poll released yesterday has Obama ahead of McCain among Catholics by a ten point margin, 39 to 29 percent. The 32 percent undecided is just as remarkable. Compare this with McCain's 45-44 lead in a July Time poll. (Side note: Pay no attention to what they say about evangelicals -- Barna's definition, while sophisticated, is so different from the self-identification measure used in other polls that it would be like comparing apples to cinderblocks.)
The entire poll is an outlier, though. Barna has Obama leading McCain by 9 percentage points overall, but Pollster.com's mean of current numbers has Obama ahead by only 2 1/2. Still, it's one more piece of evidence that "Obama's Catholic problem" has gone the way of the dodo. The stage is set for some intense parish politicking this fall.
UPDATE: Zogby released a poll on August 7 that shows McCain leading Obama 50-34 among Catholics, a rather ginormous swing from an 11-point Obama lead in their mid-July poll. I have no idea what to make of it.
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I thought we were known by our friends. Obama's friends, Wm. Ayers, former fugitive terrorist in underground group, bombed Tel Aviv airport, Israel, when I was there as tourist. Convicted Tony Rezko put him in the neighborhood. Obama's fundraiser, 2000, was Rashid Khalidi, anti-Israel Palestinian Arab spokesman. Farrakhan, Islamic leader went to Rev. Wright's church. His wife. Michelle said on talk show, The View, she was surprised that was checked when one hostess said, you should watch who you go to dinner with. That's audacity. His book Audacity of Hope showed convicting beliefs. A missionary from Kenya has known his family for many years. They caused trouble when his Socialist cousin lost the presidency Dec. 07. Churches burned but no mosques. Pray for America. God bless America
Posted by: e. Swartz | August 13, 2008 07:55 AM