[lbo-talk] Ruy Teixiera on religion & current politics

[SergioL652 at aol.com]

In a message dated 6/6/2004 8:01:43 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
mpollak at panix.com writes:
1. Most progressives are religious. For example, in 2000, 81 percent of
Gore voters professed a religious affiliation. That's within shouting
distance of the 89 percent of Bush voters who professed a religious
affiliation (2000 NSRP).

2. It is true that progressives attend church less frequently than
conservatives. In the 2000 Voter News Service (VNS) exit poll, 33 percent
of Gore voters said that they attended church once a week or more,
compared to 49 percent of Bush voters who said that they attended church
that often. (Note that both figures are probably too high-VNS data show
levels of attendance that are inconsistent with all other data sources-but
the magnitude of attendance difference between Gore and Bush voters is
probably about right.)
Is he defining "progressive as voting for Gore?  That seems a faulty 
assumption.
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