Five Super Tuesdays ago, E.J. Dionne observed, “There is no Catholic vote, and yet it matters.” The Washington Post columnist, Brookings Institution scholar and Georgetown University professor was pointing to the fact that Catholics do not vote as a bloc as some other religious and ethnic groups do, but nonetheless end up voting for the winner of presidential elections.
And yet if you look at the candidates for the Democratic nomination, it is hard to find any making an overt or even subtle appeal to Catholic Democrats. It is the dog that didn’t bark.
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