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Why Obama Needs To Win Over Catholics New poll data shows Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has some work ahead of him if he's going to woo white Catholic voters. What's standing in the way of Obama's relationship with Catholic voters?

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The Catholic vote has traditionally been a bellwether for presidential elections. Some new poll data shows Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has some work ahead of him if he's going to woo white Catholic voters. Madeleine Brand talks with R. Scott Appleby, a professor of history at the University of Notre Dame, about Catholics' relationship with Obama.