Reading the internal emails explains this...

...they despised Catholics.

//How did the most qualified person in the history of mankind manage to lose an election she was certain to win? Assuming the world survives the Trump era, historians will long ponder that question. But we found a clue in this amazing anecdote, which opens a Hillary Clinton campaign postmortem by the New York Times’s Amy Chozick:

Last year, a prominent group of supporters asked Hillary Clinton to address a prestigious St. Patrick’s Day gathering at the University of Notre Dame, an invitation that previous presidential candidates had jumped on.

Barack Obama and Joseph R. Biden Jr. had each addressed the group, and former President Bill Clinton was eager for his wife to attend. But Mrs. Clinton’s campaign refused, explaining to the organizers that white Catholics were not the audience she needed to spend time reaching out to.

Chozick does not cite a plausible rationale for that belief, most likely because there isn’t one. White Catholics are a highly competitive demographic, not one that either party can afford to write off or take for granted.

In 2012, according to an exit-poll analysis by the Pew Research Center, Mitt Romney outpolled President Obama among white Catholics, 59% to 40%. Trump led Mrs. Clinton this year, 60% to 37%—a three-point decline in the Democratic total and a four-point widening of the GOP margin.

A chart from the Public Religion Research Institute shows that three of the Obama states Trump carried—Florida, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania—have higher proportions of Catholics than the nation as a whole. Still-uncalled Michigan, where Trump leads in the current count by 0.3% of the vote, is just below the national average. If Mrs. Clinton had carried those four states, she would be president-elect with 307 electoral votes.

Ignoring white Catholics was a tactic; here is how Chozick describes the strategy:

She ceded the white working-class voters who backed Mr. Clinton in 1992. Though she would never have won this demographic, her husband insisted that her campaign aides do more to try to cut into Mr. Trump’s support with these voters. They declined, reasoning that she was better off targeting college-educated suburban voters by hitting Mr. Trump on his temperament.

Instead, they targeted the emerging electorate of young, Latino and African-American voters who catapulted Mr. Obama to victory twice, expecting, mistakenly, that this coalition would support her in nearly the same numbers. They did not.

Pursuing college-educated suburbanites was smart, if obvious. Disdaining uncredentialed whites was obviously foolish. And the Notre Dame snub was foolish for another reason: Not all Catholics are white. Obama received 75% of the Hispanic Catholic vote in 2012, to 21% for Romney. Trump narrowed that gap by 13 points—26% to Mrs. Clinton’s 67%.//

Election 2016 - Catholic Vote.

According to National Review:


//According to last night’s exit polling, president-elect Donald Trump won 52 percent of the Catholic vote, compared to Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton’s 45 percent. The Catholic vote has a history of swinging between the two major parties quite a bit depending on the year, but it has favored Democrats in recent elections; since 2000, the only Republican presidential candidate to win the majority of Catholics was George W. Bush in 2004. Somehow, though, Trump managed to capture a larger percentage of Catholic voters than did Clinton, despite the fact that he seems less aligned with typical “Catholic values” than a candidate such as Mitt Romney, who lost Catholics to Obama by a slim margin.//

Hey, Catholics!!!

Yes, Progressives really do hate you.

You knew it all along, but until you read their unfiltered discussions among themselves, you had your doubts.

//Amongst the newly released documents, one email exchange in particular should draw the ire of conservatives--and American Catholics specifically.

The 2011 email, entitled "Conservative Catholicism" comes from John Halpin, a senior fellow at the left-wing Center for American Progress (CAP), and is addressed to Jennifer Palmieri, formerly of the CAP and current Director of Communications for the 2016 Hillary Clinton presidential campaign, and John Podesta. The email, in which Catholic beliefs are referred to as "backwards", drips with contempt for Catholic Americans and Conservative Catholics in particular.

"Many of the most powerful elements of the conservative movement are all Catholic (many converts) from the SC and think tanks to the media and social groups," Halpin writes to Podesta. "They must be attracted to the systematic thought and severely backwards gender relations and must be totally unaware of Christian democracy."

Palmieri piles onto the Catholic bashing in her response.

"I imagine they think it is the most socially acceptable politically conservative religion," Palmieri writes. "Their rich friends wouldn't understand if they became evangelicals."//

So, try your luck with Hillary.

Maybe her supporters will let you keep your quaint beliefs to yourself.