Why Jeb Bush Can't Bank On Faith Like His Brother Did

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http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/06/03/411569509/why-jeb-bush-cant-bank-on-faith-like-his-brother-did

JUNE 03, 2015 5:00 AM ET
Don Gonyea


Jeb Bush, seen here bowing his head in prayer as governor of Florida in 2000, is deeply religious. "Twenty years ago I converted to Catholicism," Bush said last month. "It was one of the smartest things I've done in my whole life."
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Evangelical voters are a major force in Iowa Republican politics. A force that can tip the balance in the state's marquis event: the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses.

And it's been that way for a long time. Sixteen years ago those voters delivered in a big way for a Texas governor named George W. Bush. But it's not likely that the younger brother of that successful presidential hopeful will get that same kind of support in the 2016 election. Jeb Bush is certainly a deeply religious man — and he shares his brother's conservative views on key social issues. But despite that, many religious voters view the former Florida governor with suspicion.

Last month Jeb Bush visited Iowa's Loras College, a small, Catholic liberal arts school located in Dubuque.

It may have been an ideal place to talk about his faith in some detail, but the comments he did make came more as an afterthought at the end of his remarks.

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[CanonRay]

1. When I was age 7, I left the Catholic church

and it was one of the smartest things I ever did.

[Yorktown]

2. Most probably

[CanonRay]

3. Actually, it's true

I asked too many questions in Catechism class, and they asked me not to come back. That was it.

[Yorktown]

4. Similar experience