Religious Commitment is the Leading Vote Indicator, Says Study

From Catholic World News:

Washington, DC, May. 03 (Culture of Life Foundation / CWNews.com) - Polling data continues to show that people committed to their faith are abandoning the Democratic Party in historic numbers. The shift has become so significant that according to a report from the Pew Research Center, church attendance is a greater indicator of how one voted in the 2004 presidential election than "such demographic characteristics as gender, age, income, and region" and is "just as important as race."

The Pew study, "Religion & Public Life: A Faith-Based Partisan Divide," reports that in the last election people who attend church more than once a week, such as Catholics who go to daily Mass or Evangelicals who attend Wednesday night services, supported Republican President George W. Bush over Democrat Sen. John Kerry 64 percent to 39 percent. Such voters made up 16 percent of the electorate. For those that attend church weekly, support for President Bush was 58 percent versus 41 percent for Kerry. Among those who never attend church, 62 percent voted for Kerry; 54 percent of those who attend church a few times a year voted for the senator. Monthly church-goers evenly split their vote.

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