How did Heitkamp win in 2012? It's such a Republican State and the energy industry is huge there

@Den 2012 was a year that favored the Dems because Romney was pathetic

(and still is)

What was /pol like during 2012?

lot of denial posting about Romney losing

>IT'S NOT OVER TIL ITS OVER

@🎃Boo-ton🎃 lol I remember a bunch of people predicting a Romney victory

Oh how they were wrong

I’m imagining all of the suicide threads.

I didn't think he would

If you thought I was blackpilled now, but lemme tell ya,

I predicted a Romney loss because I thought the demographics just weren't there for him

Romney depended on a White Christian Coalition to carry him to the White House

I was unfortunately correct

Oof

It’s funny how people think who gets elected is based off of policies when it’s mostly about pandering to certain demographics and seeing which ones have the most power.

@GermanEastAfrica

https://youtu.be/zcKT5TFkfrE?t=40

"White Catholics" are surprisingly small there

Millenials are the worst generation.

Heitkamp only won by 1% in 2012.

Catholics are not that in a lot of states. Plus as a former Catholic, I can tell you they preach right but vote left.

White Catholics usually vote right-wing.

or at least we did for Trump

Catholics who shoot slut shots into their arms for sterility--a mortal sin--vote left-wing.

My family did as well

Voted for trump

And we are catholic

Indeed.

My family is split. My cousins are Democrats, my brother is a Libertarian (though don't think he even is religious), my grandparents from my mother's side have voted Democrat since they first voted, my grandfather on my dad's side has not voted Republican since 1988, and my great uncle who is a Catholic priest is a diehard Democrat.

The county I live in is primarily Catholic and it has not gone Republican since 1972.

At least the county next to me a shit load of Mormons as they help keep the congressmen in my district (who is Republican) in office.

Yeah if you don't take opposition to abortion seriously you're not really Catholic

Even if you're a priest

@Nuke Are the Catholics in Louisiana rather conservative?

I think so, though those in New Orleans are very liberal.

Then it just might be where I live as the area I live in is super liberal and very Catholic with Jews being a large religious minority.

Ethnic minority

I don't see Jews as an ethnicity.

No one is a quarter catholic or a secular catholic, but those exists for the Jewish ethnicity.

My reasoning is that all of the Jewish people I have talked to who are religiously Jewish do not view themselves as ethnically Jewish. All of the people claiming to be ethnically Jewish that I have talked to do not practice Judaism. The Jewish ethnicity has largely taken off since post World War 2.