Will Biden-Ryan debate be a ‘Catholic smackdown’?

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By Daniel Burke| Religion News Service, Published: October 10

When Joe Biden and Paul Ryan face off in the vice-presidential debate on Thursday night (Oct. 11), it will mark the first showdown of its kind between the first Catholics ever to oppose each other on the major party tickets.

A “Catholic Thrilla in Manila” as a Washington Post headline put it, recalling the famous 1975 Ali-Frazier heavyweight bout in the Philippines. Store window signs in the host city of Danville, Ky., prefer the “Thrill in the Ville.”

Whatever it is called, expectations among Catholics are as high as the stakes for both campaigns.

Joseph Cella, who leads Catholic outreach for the Romney-Ryan campaign in Michigan, where the GOP ticket has nearly closed a 10-point gap, said the campaign is organizing debate-watching parties nationwide.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-faith/will-biden-ryan-debate-be-a-catholic-smackdown/2012/10/10/d702ee88-1321-11e2-9a39-1f5a7f6fe945_story.html

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1. How can this even be? "Michigan, where the GOP ticket has nearly closed a 10-point gap.."

Surely MI people know that the GOP gives two shits about them and the auto industry (which, I know, is not all MI is about, but...)