Get Religion gets it

from their recent post, we need to be precise when we use the term "Catholic" voter:

As pollster and scholar John C. Green of the University of Akron told me more than a decade ago, so many White House races boil down to whether “Catholics who go to Mass every Sunday” in states like Ohio turn out to vote in greater numbers than “Catholics who go to Mass once a month.” In other words, Catholics who go to Mass all the time have different religious and cultural beliefs than those who show up every now and then.

It goes on to list 4 types of Catholics:

1. Ex-Catholics

2. Cultural Catholics 

3. Sunday Catholics

4. Real Catholics 

Then it clarifies...

As always, let me stress that those “Sunday-morning American Catholics” are the voters that are usually in play during a national election. That’s the Catholics that the candidates are trying to reach.

So there are some Dissenting Liberals who faithfully go to Church each Sunday, and there are Pro-Life Republicans whose fiscal and military policy places them at odds with the teaching of the church in most other aspects. What's needed is for Catholics to learn the actual Magisterium and apply it correctly: socially liberal, economically distributist, morally conservative, and politically civil. Read the Catechism! Learn the Social Doctrine! Be virtuous! 

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Follow-up: there are only 2 types of Catholics, Practicing vs. Lapsed (which is why I listed #4 above as "Real" Catholics, because the other ones simply aren't being Catholic)