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April 20, 2012

Catholics and Evangelicals Choose Romney

Daniel Burke, Religion News Service

While President Obama maintains a slim edge overall against Mitt Romney, the presumptive GOP nominee holds a huge lead among white evangelicals and Roman Catholics, according to a new poll.

Obama lost ground in the past month to Romney among Protestants and Catholics generally, according to a poll released Tuesday (April 17) by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. Obama's support has dropped among Protestants (5 percentage points) and Catholics (8 percentage points) since mid-March.

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