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Midterms reinforce Christian voter trends on abortion, GOP

FILE - Pennsylvania Democratic gubernatorial candidate Josh Shapiro, the state's attorney general, attends an election night event, Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022, in Oaks, Pa. In Pennsylvania, Catholics were slightly more likely to have voted for the Republican loser in the Senate race, Mehmet Oz, but more likely to vote for the Democratic winner in the governor’s race, Josh Shapiro. Oz is Muslim and Shapiro is Jewish. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File) FILE - Signs are tacked to the wall at Protect Kentucky Access' election watch party at the Galt House in Louisville, Ky., Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022. In Kentucky, a reliably Republican state, voters rejected a GOP-backed ballot measure aimed at denying any state constitutional protections for abortion. Among those voting No were 60% of Catholic voters, according to AP VoteCast. (Ryan C. Hermens/Lexington Herald-Leader via AP, File) FILE - Decorations stand on display at a watch party for Michigan Proposal 3 at the David Whitney Building in Detroit on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022. On a successful, high-profile ballot measure in the battleground state of Michigan, proposing to enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution, Catholic voters split about evenly, according to AP VoteCast, an expansive survey of more than 94,000 voters across the country. (Ryan Sun/Ann Arbor News via AP, File) FILE - People cast their ballots at Coit Arts Academy in Grand Rapids on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022. On a successful, high-profile ballot measure in the battleground state of Michigan, proposing to enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution, Catholic voters split about evenly, according to AP VoteCast, an expansive survey of more than 94,000 voters across the country. (Joel Bissell/The Grand Rapids Press via AP, File)