Kerry is Catholic!
This study from these guys-
"Those are just a few of the insights to be gleaned from the Fourth National Survey of Religion and Politics, a project of the University of Akron that was underwritten by the Pew Charitable Trusts and the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life ..""Among all evangelical Protestants, 78 percent voted for Bush, while 50 percent of all mainline Protestants voted for Bush.
But among Hispanic Protestants, Bush garnered an amazing 63 percent of the vote. That’s 26 percentage points higher than the Republican Party identification (merely 37 percent) in that category. So Hispanics Protestants responded to the electoral choice more like Protestants than like Hispanics. Religion trumped ethnicity.The same pattern was generally true for Hispanic Catholics. Although only 15 percent of Hispanic Catholics are Republican, 31 percent of them voted for Bush, doubling the GOP base." ...
http://www.thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/Comment/Pollsters/DavidHill/030905.html "By breaking out non-Hispanic Catholics into a separate category, it is clear that Democrats are in more trouble with Catholics than some have suspected.
Overall, 41 percent of non-Hispanic Catholics are Republicans and 44 are Democrats. But on Election Day, Bush beat Kerry 53 to 47 percent among those voters, doubtless picking up the lion’s share of independent white Catholics.As we saw with Hispanics, Bush’s success among non-Hispanic Catholics derives from more than social issues. Only 39 percent of the non-Hispanic Catholic category described abortion and gay marriage as “very important” and just 19 percent said those social issues are more important than foreign policy or economic issues.
So the appeal of Bush and Republicans to non-Hispanic Catholics, as well as to Hispanics, is broader and deeper than many have speculated." ..