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In the face of [a] sea of political troubles, Bush garnered 8.3 million more votes than he received in 2000 .. The huge voter turnout everyone assumed would help Kerry win instead boosted Bush to victory. A glance at the political demographics of that vote should alarm Democrats. .. Bush won 55 percent of the Catholic vote, 45 percent of Hispanics, 65 percent of regular churchgoers, 61 percent of Protestants, 40 percent of union members, 54 percent of families with veterans and 54 percent of those with a high school education. The female gender gap that once helped Democrats is disappearing. Bush won 57 percent of married women and nearly half of all female voters, even as he beat Kerry among male voters, 53 percent to 46.