A Bigger Political Predictor Than Your Religion? How Often You Go to Church

NBC News ^ | 04/05/2015 | Dante Chinni

[crosdaddy]

I’m with you Proud2BeRight
Crosdaddy

[peyton randolph]

Two neighbors are radical socialists to the left of Obama. They’re very active in their church, both in attendance and promoting left-wing causes as part of liberation theology. They are hardcore Dem activists.

As a Deist, I don’t attend church. My Hindu and Buddhist neighbors don’t either. We do vote conservative though.

[doorgunner69]

Just because people don’t attend church doesn’t mean they don’t worship. They just worship at the altar of government.

You enjoy pulling things out your orifice because you like the sound of it?

You full of it. You can only speak for yourself, for others, best be silent lest you sound like a fool.

[DeweyCA]

Do your neighbors go to an old liberal “mainline” denomination?

[Salamander]

Same here.

God is everywhere and can hear just fine, from there.

[peyton randolph]

“Do your neighbors go to an old liberal “mainline” denomination?”

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Presbyterian.

[jmaroneps37]

I think it was Pew that FINALLY figured out - or decided to fess up and tell the truth about who is Catholic and who is not during their latest survey. In the past to help Democrat anyone said he “once lived down the street from a Catholic church” qualified as a Catholic IF they voted Democrat. Adherent Catholics know we have dimwitted brothers and sisters who attend mass each week but don't see the Democrats as a threat, but we also know that we substantially out number them. Even the 15 point difference being reported is bogus and we and the pollsters know it. Now they are telling the truth to try and warn the Democrats they are actually losing Catholics by a big margin. Let's hope it's too late.

[Steamburg]

A quote from guess who:
13. Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. In conflict tactics there are certain rules that [should be regarded] as universalities. One is that the opposition must be singled out as the target and ‘frozen.’...

“...any target can always say, ‘Why do you center on me when there are others to blame as well?’ When your ‘freeze the target,’ you disregard these [rational but distracting] arguments.... Then, as you zero in and freeze your target and carry out your attack, all the ‘others’ come out of the woodwork very soon. They become visible by their support of the target...’