You’d think so David but all the voting groups like to be mentioned chased and pandered too . Each group has countless think tanks and foundations to highlight their point of view .Plus the media with their endless polls perpetrate this.

It’s the same everywhere I reckon David, people like to be able to identify with something more local than their nation (not necessarily geographically local) . It’s like tommy tiernans joke “hello I’m the president of Ireland …. but more importantly I’m from Cork” …

The lads from England and France killed them all David, and then they called it Thanksgiving

@rdx. I lived between New York and Connecticut during Clinton and Bob Dole. There was lots of reference to Irish Vote. But it is true the majority of networks refer to it as the Catholic vote. It is important to them otherwise he would not have made a pit stop here for a pint of Guinness or consecutive presidents enduring or leaders every March.

I have lived here most of my life and have never heard the Irish vote talked about outside of local elections. US Presidents make trips to many different countries and the Irish trip barely got mentioned here in the US anyway. The annual St. Patrick’s day trip was part of the peace process and it was going to be ended when Bush came to power but he got convinced to keep it up. Now the only thing it signifies is that it is a fun time for both Democrats and Republicans to have a St. Patrick’s Day breakfast and dinner. It also barely gets mentioned in the press outside of a brief clip of the shamrock being presented.

Hey R2D2! I loved you in star wars.

Maybe they can influence them to attend mass. Hispanics are the main group in the Catholic vote because they are not completely settled like the Irish, Italians, Poles, and every other nationality in the US that makes up the Catholic vote. Contraception controversy was the hierarchy of the Catholic church getting upset (not actually the Catholic public who overwhelming use contraceptives) and Fox News and the rest of the conservative media running with it and turning it into government interfering with faith story line.

The Irish government has no problem with austerity and the only thing they have stood up for in Europe was for maintaining the corporate tax rate that benefits large multinationals.

I’m not defending the Irish Government, this story isn’t about the Irish Government, it doesn’t mention the Irish Government, how is this relevant to the fact Paul Ryans’ politics are shocking and we should not be proud of him?

Who is asking you to be proud?

@ Tony: It is this publication, like most others in this country will also do I’m sure, that’s hyping up the “Oirish” thing. And I haven’t seen anyone ask us to be proud of him.

Are you that surprised that the vice-presidental choice for a Republican candidate is Republican?

Good insightful comment there. Yeah best to keep trucking with Obama who has delivered zero but more war and more debt.

As bad as Obama is, he’s got nothing on Romney, who’s a certifiable lunatic.

And he’s a moonie.

@Sean

Other than his religious beliefs what is it about him that is so crazy? If religion is all you have then please explain how his beliefs are any crazier then any of the rest of the mainstream cults out there.

Everyone knows the moonies are nuts, just like the republican party. When you combine the two, you end up with a crazy fest.

Irish Catholics traditionally tended to mostly support the Democrats. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Republican Calvin Coolidge began courting this demographic. What resulted was a mutally benefital relationship for both parties.
Ryan would appear to be cut from similar cloth as Coolidge, which might be a good omen for US as Coolidge as VP in the Harding administration guided the US out of depression in less than two years (1920-21).
http://www.city-journal.org/2012/bc0316cj.html

No he’s not a Moonie, he’s a Mormon you clown. I’ll leave you to google the two so you can figure out the difference.

Same difference. They’re both nutjob religions . Isn’t one wife enough for any man/ president ? This multiple wives lark is going to play havoc with the sleeping arrangements in the white house. Roomney is pure greedy. Not only will he not release his tax returns, he won’t even tell us how many wives he has!

I’m sure he’s fully aware of his own facetiousness……………………………………………………………………………….you clown.

Congratulations Timmy, you finally got out of the well.

@ limofax: Romney has one wife. Not all Mormon’s have multiple wives. Maybe you should read up a bit.

Ryan, is that what you believe. I have heard from a very reliable source that Romney has multiple wives. He has them all hidden in boxes like a bunch of Gimps! It’s well known in political circles. To be honest, I was surprised that he didn’t pick Scientologist Tom Cruise, another fruitcake. Apparently all that jumping on the couch upsets the gimps in the basement.

Polygamy is also permitted in Islam. Does this make all Muslims nutjobs as with Mormons?

Nah, Islam is fine. Them Mormons, weirdos. I also heard that Romney is the love child of Dr Spock. Now if that wouldn’t be enough to freak ya out ? No tax returns, multiple wives kept in boxes like gimps and lovechild of Dr Spock…..only in america. Plus has anyone seen his birth cert……the real one!!! The guy was cloned in a lab by Dr Spock and the crowd that gave us Dolly the sheep. Remember he’s a love child. Sick! One of his wives leaked last year that he tastes of cardboard when she was shifting him. Obama will coast it.

Apparently, all that jumping on the couch upsets all the gimps in the basement- brilliant

The Gods of the markets

Heh. The cynic in me is chuckling at the choice facing the nuttier evangelicals in November’s election: a Mormon and a Catholic, versus a “Muslim” and a Catholic – not a “real” Christian in sight.

With any luck, several of them will explode in disgust.

Remarkable number of red flags for that sane comment Conor. Seems Ireland has become pro-Austerity.

Rubio was Mormon when he was a kid

You say that like it’s a bad thing. After decades of supposed christian war-mongering US presidents, while US citizens have seen their civil liberties degraded, it would surely be a great idea to have a randian in the White house.

I dislike religion immensely but I’d rather live in a world where people genuinely try to help each other than one where they all act like selfish a*******. Therefore I’d choose Jesus over Rand any day. Just out of interest, what civil liberties are you referring to?

The most bigoted organisation in the history of the US was founded by Democrats. Initially, they targeted Jews, communists, Catholics, African-Americans and Republicans.
While the Ku Klux Klan have mostly been associated with Southern states, they were implicated or blamed for the destruction of Catholic churches as far north as Maine and Minnesota.

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_org_kkk.html

Does

The Irish vote is so important that they don’t bother to conduct any polling on it and nobody mentions it outside of people in Ireland.

The media refer to it as the ‘Catholic vote’ – mainly Irish and close second Italians, they do monitor it and track it, it’s very important to a campaign strategy. You are correct that they don’t call it the Irish vote though.

Yea Tony make sure you forget about the Hispanics

although a large demographic of the population has Irish links, there is no real ‘irish vote’ per say. that probably just down to the sheer size if the pool. There’s lots of Irish blood on both sides , ironically there is traditionally probably a lot more on the republican side than the democratic one

disagree, irish are largely a coastal demographic, thus far more democratic. a large number of scots did head south though.

Not to mention that Biden is very, very into his Irish American heritage….

Not with Romney it isn’t.

good name choice :P

He must be keeping one eye on our new oil find.

Ireland has weapons of mass destruction ( where as we know them as georgia salpa’s bust) invade invade