Americans With Religious Faith Have Fled the Democratic Party

by Gary Bauer
11/14/2011

Of all the divisions between Democrats and Republicans, the deepening religious divide may be the most important.

Knowing someone’s religion doesn’t necessarily predict which party he supports. But increasingly, knowing how devout that person is does. Devout Americans are abandoning a Democratic Party whose deepest devotion is to Big Government.

According to a new Gallup poll, for the first time a majority of Democrats, 52%, say they never or seldom go to church. Only about one-quarter of self-identified Democrats, 27%, say they attend weekly or more...


...These data confirm an ongoing trend of people of faith abandoning the Democratic Party and people of no faith flocking to it.

The Democratic presidential nominee’s share of the atheist vote has increased in each of the last four elections. the rest