The French are not known for being fans of American ways. But their voting patterns, especially among Catholics, are becoming more similar when it comes to embracing candidates that some consider beyond the pale.
It was once said of US Catholics that they could be relied on to vote Democratic. But that is no longer true. In recent presidential elections their vote has been pretty evenly split. In the 2012 election, for example, Barack Obama got 50 per cent of the Catholic vote and the Republicans’ Mitt Romney got 48 per cent.
