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Religion & Ethics Newsweekly - "2008 Campaign: Catholic and Jewish Voters"
2008 Campaign: Catholic and Jewish Voters
Cover Story, Original Broadcast Date: October 17, 2008 (Show #1207):
In the presidential campaign, Jews and Catholics are a critical voting bloc. How will issues like abortion and gay marriage -- and the Sarah Palin candidacy -- impact the Catholic electorate? And, will questions relating to Israel affect Barack Obama's support from Jewish voters? Lucky Severson travels to Pennsylvania -- one of the key election swing states -- to talk with Catholic and Jewish voters about campaign issues important to them. "I think that what happens in church on Sunday . . . while you try and live that message for the rest of the week, the issues that come up on Monday morning are not abortion," observes Mary Kate Culkin from Scranton. "They are feeding your kids, stretching that paycheck or getting gas in your car, or shipping a kid off to Iraq. So I think that we temper what we hear on Sunday with what we have to do the other six days of the week."
Featured (in alphabetical order):
David Broida
Mary Kate Culkin
Paul Defabo, Vice Chairman, Luzerne County Republican Party
Lori Lowenthal Marcus
In the presidential campaign, Jews and Catholics are a critical voting bloc. How will issues like abortion and gay marriage -- and the Sarah Palin candidacy -- impact the Catholic electorate? And, will questions relating to Israel affect Barack Obama's support from Jewish voters? Lucky Severson travels to Pennsylvania -- one of the key election swing states -- to talk with Catholic and Jewish voters about campaign issues important to them. "I think that what happens in church on Sunday . . . while you try and live that message for the rest of the week, the issues that come up on Monday morning are not abortion," observes Mary Kate Culkin from Scranton. "They are feeding your kids, stretching that paycheck or getting gas in your car, or shipping a kid off to Iraq. So I think that we temper what we hear on Sunday with what we have to do the other six days of the week."
Featured (in alphabetical order):
David Broida
Mary Kate Culkin
Paul Defabo, Vice Chairman, Luzerne County Republican Party
Lori Lowenthal Marcus