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Old 01-15-2012, 05:12 PM
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Originally Posted by janmcn View Post
As I recall, it was the republicans that made such an issue about JFK's catholicisim and are making such as issue about President Obama's former pastor. And it's the republican evangelicals that are uniting against Mitt Romney.
I think you are guilty of a little historical revisionism. There were many at the time who doubted that JFK could win the Democrat Primary. That wasn't a problem about Republican's. There was no "Republican" problem here, there was a perceived Catholic bias problem across the board.