Our friends at the Spiritual Politics blog have crunched some of the numbers from Super Tuesday. One of the more interesting phenomena was Clinton’s apparent success with Catholic voters.

Says Mark Silk: “Just about everywhere Obama fared poorly with Catholics on Super Tuesday. In heavily Irish Catholic New England, the margins were big. Likewise in the more mixed ethnic Catholicism of the Middle Atlantic States. In California, where Latinos dominate the Catholic population, even worse. (Not quite so bad in New Mexico and Arizona.) Even in his home state of Illinois, where Obama won big, he lost the Catholic vote to Clinton by a few percentage points. The exception was in Missouri, where he polled better with Catholics than with Protestants. So what’s the problem? Does it have to do with class and ethnicity-as white working- and lower-middle-class Catholics in the Northeast and metropolitan Chicago, Latinos in the Southwest? Or is there something in Obama’s Black Protestant style-his political revivalism-that just doesn’t compute very well with Catholics? One way to tell would be to get a cross tab that showed how Latino Protestants voted.”

Adds John Green: “The bedrock of the Clinton vote continued to be white Catholics: 71% in New Jersey, 68% in California, and 67% in Massachusetts. It was Catholic votes that allowed her to overcome Kennedy’s endorsement of Obama in the Bay State. Minority Catholics swelled Clinton’s totals everywhere.”