✣ Trump wins Catholic vote by clear margin
What happened?
Media coverage in the run-up to the US election made much of Donald Trump’s “Catholic problem” – but exit polls revealed that Catholics voted 52 per cent for the president-elect and only 45 per cent for Hillary Clinton. The election continued a trend of a majority of Catholics voting for the winning presidential candidate.
“Presidential candidates who win the Catholic vote almost always win the presidency,” said the statistician Dr Mark Gray of Georgetown University.
