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Or perhaps just additional information.

In the 2000 White House race, Voter News Service found that 14 percent of the voters said they attended religious services more than once a week and 14 percent said they never attended. The former backed Bush by a 27 percent margin and the latter Al Gore by a 29 percent margin.

So, perhaps the practice of religion has more to do with voting behavior than simple affiliation.



Also, I'm sure many people have heard of the "five questions" that pollsters came up with back in 1996 that were accurate predictors of voting behavior. For those who haven't they are:

Is homosexuality morally wrong? Do you ever look at pornography? Would you look down on a married person who had an affair? Is sex before marriage morally wrong? Is religion very important in your life?

If voters chose "liberal" answers (no,yes,no,no,no) on three out of five, the odds were 2-1 they would pick Clinton. The odds soared if they leaned left on four out of five questions. Those giving "conservative" answers went Republican, by precisely the same odds.