Survey: Most religious voters in line with national polling averages
January 4th, 2012
By Dan Merica, CNN
(CNN) – Even though former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, one of two Catholics in the race for the GOP nomination, was helped by an evangelical bump in Iowa on Wednesday, his support among Catholic Republicans is near the bottom of the field, according to a new Gallup survey.
Santorum, who according to the survey gets the support of 3% of all registered Republicans, only gets 4% support – a 1% bump – among his Catholic GOP brethren.
Those numbers are in stark contrast to former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who is supported by 23% of all Republicans in the poll, but receives the support of 71% of Mormon Republicans.
Romney’s numbers are “the clearest cut pattern” in the survey, wrote Gallup’s Frank Newport.
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/01/04/survey-most-religious-voters-in-line-with-national-polling-averages/
Here's the survey:
http://www.gallup.com/poll/151880/Protestant-Catholic-GOP-Vote-Similar-National-Average.aspx?utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=syndication&utm_content=morelink&utm_term=Politics%20-%20Religion%20-%20Religion%20and%20Social%20Trends%20-%20Social%20Issues%20-%20USA
