Obama to win Catholic voters? by Maria Vasilova

Breaking news in all the American medias, Barack Obama, a potential Democratic nominate for the presidential elections in the U. S. is going to be supported by the Pennsylvania Sen, Bob Casey. Casey, the first & term senator of state Pennsylvania, member of Democratic party with a strong conservative views on abortion and other social issues, has just decided to join Obama's campaign across Pennsylvania. While Casey is Catholic and the senator of a state with more than 30% Catholic population, Obama is accused to have a "Catholic problem". With his liberal opinion on abortion and even homosexual marriages, it might be nearly impossible for him to beat Clinton among Catholic voters in Pennsylvania. Connecticut, Massachusetts, Illinois, New Jersey, Florida, Maryland, all the major loss confirm Obama's negative definition in the eyes of Catholic voters. However, in his new strategy, Obama decided to win the votes of 3.8 million Catholics of Pennsylvania thanks the support of the most influent man, its Senator. Actually, he is not the only Catholic authority endorsing the so called most "Anti - catholic presidential candidate". A well - known Catholic jurist Douglas Kmiec named Obama as a "Catholic natural", Frances Kissling, former president of Catholics for a Free Choice and Joe Feuerherd, a Catholic reporter are also arguing for Obama. On the other hand, Clinton, who has been blamed by the Catholics for being "not radical enough on abortion", has good opportunities among the white working & class voters and wants to persuade the Catholic population with her plans on universal system of health care, mortgage regulation and other key social issues. The six & days campaign starts on Friday, nevertheless, Pennsylvania voters feel neglected. The chairman of Obama's western Pennsylvania steering committee, Clifford Levine, claimed that "voters are hungry." According to his words, people are almost "dying" to get the ticket and participate on the show. Well, politics seems to be a kind of entertainment industry, doesn't it?

related story: http://www.catholic.org/politics/story.php?id=27006

by Maria Vasilova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

PocketNews is a new real-time news broadcaster delivering the latest and hottest news right to your pocket ! With global clients who want to be kept up to date, PocketNews is everyone's way of keeping in touch with the World.

These news are brought to you by CantellTV, its technology partner SigEx Telecom and its founder Chris Cantell. CantellTV is the fastest growing provider of digital broadcasting coupled with enhanced communications, allowing people to easily control, view, upload and share digital content through proprietary interface. CantellTV has relationships with a growing network of international clients delivering millions of videos per day with more than 50,000 new videos uploaded and 200 hours of new TV shows broadcasted daily to a wide range of viewers, from 5 to 7 year olds of LiveCartoons; to 16 to 24 year old active social users of MyJumps; to fortune 50 corporate clients utilizing enhanced broadcasting services. CantellTV is committed to delivering infinite choices to your world of entertainment at the tip of your fingers. Chris Cantell retains consulting arrangements with several pre-IPO companies.

Edited by: Katarina Bosanska