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be irnored or explained away"
He summed up the pattern
OF American voting: prot
estants are more likely to vote
Republican than are either
Catholics or Jews :. Northern
white Protestants form the bull
wark of the Republican Party.
while Catholics, Jews, South
ern white Protestants, and Ne
gro Protestants provide the
major bases of the Democratic
Party"
Jewish Vote Vital
The pollster, Oliver A. Ouayle.
III, said Jewish voters were
cool toward Mr.. Kennedy at
the start of the 1860 campaign
but later fell solidly behind
him because he was a Cath
ole and deserved support as
a member of a minority group,
even though another minority
group"
Mr.. Quayle noted that both
Protestant and Catholic sup
port Of Mr.. Kennedy dropped
in the last few weeks of the
campaign and che may have
been saved by the increase in
the Jewish vote"
Mr.. Quayle is vice president
OF Louis Harris and Associates.
the firm that conducted private
polls for Mr.. Kennedy during
the 1860 campaign.
The analyses by Mr.. Lenski
and Mr.. Quayle came in studies
prepared for the First National
Institute on Religious Freedom
and Public Affairs. The Ma
tional Conference of Christians
and Jews is sponsoring the in
stitute here.
Recalls West virginia
Both Mr.. Quayle and Mr..
Lenski based much of their
material on the 1860 presiden-
tial election, in which Presi-
dent Kennedy defeated Richard
M. Nixon.
Mr. Quayle recalled the West,
Virginia Democratic Primary
when Mr.. Kennedy, a Catholic,
defeated Senator Humphrey of
Minnesota in a contest for
delegates to the National Con-
vention.
with only four days to 60,
the Senator (Kennedy) was
still behind" Mr.. Quayle said.
Throughout this period our
surveys continued to show a
single factor standing in Mr..
Kennedy's path-his catholic
ISM"
Mr.. Quayle said Mr.. Kennedy
decided to launch an attack on
religious intolerance during the
last four days. And, Mr.. Quayle
added, that won the primary
election for him.
In the campaign against Mr..
Nixon. Mr.. Quayle said, the poll
sters found that Mr.. Kennedy,s
lead was diminishing in the last
few weeks.
Didn't Rock Boat"
Our advice to Mr.. Kennedy
was to hit once more on re-
ligion as it contributed to the
ebbing Of his lead" MIR. Ouayle
said. His decision was to
stand on his lead and not to
rock the boat"
Mr.. Lenski said that an
analysis Of the 1860 presiden-
tial election, when compared
with the 1858 Congressional
results. shows that nearly half
the Catholic Republicans
. switched to Mr.. Kennedy and
more than a quarter Of the
Protestant Democrats switched
to Mr.. Nixon.
Looking more closely at the
Catholic vote, Mr.. Lenski said
that President Kennedy's VIC
tory in the 1860 election was
essentially a victory of the
Catholic community rather
than the Catholic church.
BY this, Mr.. LenSki meant
that Catholics who voted for
Mr.. Kennedy were more under
the influence of fellow Catho-
lies at home or at work than
Of fellow Catholics in Church.
Mr.. Lenski said a survey of
the Detroit area shows that
Catholic community life In
fluences an individual to vote
Democratic, but Catholic church
attendance does not.
Raps at Legend
Yesterday, a theologian adj
vised fellow Protestants to bury
the belief that the Founding
Fathers created a Christian
America"
sit is a lie," said DR.. Frank
lin H. Littell, professor of
church history at the Chicago
Theological Seminary. He said
it is a legend that els used to
justify bad citizenship and de-
generate religion"
DR.. Littell's remarks came in
a speech before the opening
session of the institute.
In another talk, Msgr. John
Tracy Ellis urged the institute
not to concentrate ON "the neg
alive aspects Of the record" Of
any one religious body. Msgr.
Ellis is professor of church his
tory at Catholic University.
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