text: How did the writer and at least two editors let this out?
  
  Paragraph 10 reads "White Catholics favored Trump, 60 percent to 37 percent." In paragraph 15 we read white Catholics "support for Trump this year was not as strong as the 59 percent they gave to Romney." That is impossible on its face. Theoretically, the absolute number of white Catholic votes  may have been down, but if that was the case there is no statistical citation of it and use of percentages confuses the matter. 
  
  Discussion of the Mormon vote is muddled. We get the percentage of Utah voters who are Mormon and the percentage of the Utah vote for Trump, but no indication of the overlap. I would wager that in Utah and nationwide, Trump got a weaker plurality of Mormons than of the general population.
  
  Sloppy writing. Disgraceful editing. How does something this weak get published? RNS and NCR need to improve standards.