Catholics and the 2020 Presidential Election

This article examines the role of Catholics within the 2020 presidential election in the United States. Although Catholics were once a crucial and dependable component of the Democratic Party's electoral coalition, their vote in more recent years has been much more splintered. Nevertheless, Cat...

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Nebentitel:"Religion and American Presidential Elections 2020"
1. VerfasserIn: Smidt, Corwin E. (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: CEEOL 2021
In: Politikologija religije
Jahr: 2021, Band: 15, Heft: 2, Seiten: 283-312
weitere Schlagwörter:B partisan identification
B presidential voting
B mass attendance
B racial/ethnic differences
B Catholics
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Zusammenfassung:This article examines the role of Catholics within the 2020 presidential election in the United States. Although Catholics were once a crucial and dependable component of the Democratic Party's electoral coalition, their vote in more recent years has been much more splintered. Nevertheless, Catholics have been deemed to be an important "swing vote" in American politics today, as in recent presidential elections they have aligned with the national popular vote. This article therefore focuses on the part that Catholics played within the 2020 presidential election process. It addresses the level of political change and continuity within the ranks of Catholics over the past several elections, how they voted in the Democratic primaries during the initial stages of the 2020 presidential election, their level of support for different candidates over the course of the campaign, how they ultimately came to cast their ballots in the 2020 election, and the extent to which their voting patterns in 2020 differed from that of 2016.
ISSN:1820-659X
Enthält:Enthalten in: Politikologija religije
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.54561/prj1502283s