Another Look At Religion In America

Quoted from http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/02/12/washingtons_god_storyand_ameri/:

TPM Cafe | Talking Points Memo | Washington’s God Story—and America’s

...It’s what I call Washington’s God Story.

But here’s why I think this “right wing dominance of religion” story is false: over eighty percent of Clinton voters in the 1990s, Gore voters in 2000 and Kerry voters in 2004 identified themselves as “religious” in exit polls—and I’m guessing at least eighty percent of the Democratic vote will say the same this coming November. So clearly millions upon millions of Americans have long counted themselves “religious”--but don’t behave in the voting booth, or think of themselves generally, as “a right-wing force” at all...