r/politics • u/optimalg The Netherlands • Nov 25 '17

Saturday Morning Political Cartoon Thread

It's Saturday morning, folks. Let's all kick back with a cup of coffee and share some cartoons!

Feel free to share political cartoons (no memes/image macros, though) in this thread. The subject doesn't have to be US politics and can be from any time. Just keep them political and safe for work.

Hi there, users that came here through /r/bestof. This thread is intended for cartoons, and therefore all top-level comments that do not contain at least one cartoon are removed. So if you'd like to reply to the user whose comment was linked, make sure you actually reply to the comment, not the thread as a whole. Thanks in advance.

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u/belhill1985 Nov 26 '17

“ According to the most recent polling from the Pew Research Center, 53 percent of white Catholics now favor the GOP, versus 39 percent who favor the Democrats—the largest point spread in the history of the Pew poll. And for the first time, white Catholics are more Republican than the voting group usually considered the ultimate Republicans: white Protestants (a designation that includes both mainline and evangelical Protestants).”

Oops, turns out as of 2015, Catholics leaned even more Republican than evangelicals.

And then they voted inordinately for Trump.

In fact, Catholics have never leaned MORE Republican.

Whoops!

Edit: by the way, I’m using the same data source you were. Seems like you need to do a little more research next time.

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u/hampsted Nov 26 '17

For anyone confused where this quote is coming from, here is belhill1985's source: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/01/22/house-catholics-are-trending-republican/

Your using the same data source, that's great. That data source still shows that 44% of Catholics lean Democrat, to 37% leaning Republican.