[Tamzee]

They missed a some big obvious areas in their "research".... that folks with religious beliefs tend to have very strong feelings about right versus wrong and a strong family unit. If they did these polls again and asked those questions instead of religious stance, they would have gotten the same pretty pictures. Liberals, no matter their religious leaning, tend to blame the government for "wrong", take all credit for anything "right" and support anti-family government issues.

Pitiful research....and the liberals will jump right on it to discredit Bush as a religious fanatic :-(

[Torie]

Good point that religious intensity is correlated with much else, such as married women versus single women. It would take a regression analysis and a huge sample to sort out which variables are doing what to whom. Still, given the current state of play, religiousity is an important factor at the moment in partisan preference. It was less so in the past, and may be so again in the future.