Obama has edge over Clinton with mainline Protestant Democrats: Catholics prefer Clinton
White mainline Protestants who are Democrats or Democratic-leaning voters favored Senator Barack Obama (D., Ill.) slightly over Senator Hillary Clinton (D., N.Y.), 27 percent to 24 percent, as the party’s nominee for president in a late March national survey. But white non-Hispanic Catholics preferred Clinton 33 percent to 12 percent over Obama, contributing to Clinton’s early lead among Democrats.