Senator Obama, that's who.
This post links to a revealing new poll of religious voters in an article in the U.S. News & World Report.
According to the poll, Barack Obama holds a 43 to 34 percent lead over John McCain among these voters. The Barna Group, which conducted the survey, reports that Obama leads in 18 of the 19 communities of faiths it recognizes, with only evangelical Christians breaking for McCain.
That would seem to be a significant bloc, of course, but the Barna Group uses a strict methodology that results in only 8 percent of the population being classified as evangelicals.
According to the article,"Obama has a huge advantage among non-Christians, atheists, and agnostics, but he also leads among nonevangelical, born-again Christians (43 to 31), Christians who are neither born-again nor evangelical (44 to 28), Catholics (39 to 29), and Protestants (43 to 34)."
This data is interesting in light of the weirdly fanatical attempt by extremist Republicans to paint Obama as an "Anti-Christ," which is a mythical figure I've barely ever heard of during my six decades on the planet.
Perhaps McCain's camp is aware of this "religious gap," and is frantically trying to close it with scare techniques -- that would seem to be one logical explanation for what we see happening.
In any event, I will keep a watch on "faith-based" voters, as well as other key demographics, as the poll numbers continue their predictable rise and fall right up until election day.
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