[lbo-talk] Re: People Who Attend Church More Than Once A Week

Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com
Thu Jan 1 12:06:58 PST 2004


On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, Yoshie Furuhashi cited figures from [a link related to the link that Timothy Francis-Wright posted to] the original Pew data on the relation between church-going voting behavior:


> http://people-press.org/reports/pdf/196.pdf>
>
> http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?ReportID=32

Thanks Yoshie. I didn't dig far enough into Tim's link. These are exactly the relevant figures. And they seem to show clearly that the political significance of church-going is that it's a wash. Only by taking the extremes and ignoring the middle could Wallis fake a case that something decisive is going on or needs to be undertaken. It seems that both parties' currently very different strategies for balancing religion and secularism are having almost exactly equal success.

Michael



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