Poll....How Much Does Religion Affect Your Vote?

[in_cog_ni_to]

http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/elections/article.adp?id=20040603070909990023

How much does religion affect your vote?
Not at all 45%
Very much 38%
Somewhat 16%
How often do you attend religious services?
Weekly 45%
Occasionally 25%
Never 25%
Monthly 5%
Total Votes: 18,079

Vote!

[NMDemDist2]

1. bunch of Godless commies, all of ya!!!

<joking on>

[Forkboy]

2. el zippo

[minkyboodle]

3. none

n/t

[JustFiveMoreMinutes]

4. Negative vote?

Funny, but religion DOES impact my vote VERY much.

And it's NOT because of MY religious doctrine, but I will definitely vote to counter theocratic politicians.

[dkackman]

6. RE: Original Message

ditto. I don't mind a religous politician, but will vote against any politician; christian, catholic, jew, or muslim; who does not appreciate the seperation of church and state.

[newyawker99]

11. Hi dkackman!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Catch22Dem]

5. A great deal!!!

Other people's religion affects my vote very much. I'd never vote for some fundie like Ashcroft for dog catcher, let alone US Senator! So, religion affects my vote very much. I don't think that's what the poll intended though.

[in_cog_ni_to]

7. Exactly.

We need to set these religious zealots straight. I'm so sick of hearing how holy the chimp is. I heard someone on C-SPAN yesterday who said the chimp reads the bible EVERY morning. Yeah, uh, huh...whatever. The Man CAN'T read! Do they think we're stooooopid? :eyes: If he's religious, I'm the Pope. :grr:

[Demobrat]

8. Religion doesn't affect my vote at all.

Fanaticism does, though.

[Null Pointer]

9. Can we assume

that of the 38% cite religion as "Very Much" a reason on choosing who to vote that at least half, or only 19%, are Republican?

It makes me wonder why Bush panders to the religious right so much (faith-based initiatives, veiled references to Revelations, etc, etc)

10. Actually, I read the patterns of the monkey bones after the fire sacrifice

I just can't plan my week without my monkey bones.

[PurityOfEssence]

12. The more they have, the less I vote for them

Unfortunately, they have to be immersed in the stuff, or they're not even allowed a crack at office.

[GreenPartyVoter]

13. It affects mine in the sense that

I vote for the person I think is most likely to help other people, as my faith says we should do.

[lapauvre]

14. I have read the study, or poll

on a site that only offers "republican views," and as is my usual thinking, (experience in courts of law) there are at least two interpretations of every bit of evidence.

That 80% of those who never go to church would have voted for Gore, while about an equal or greater percentage who attend church weekly would or did vote for Bush, can be interpreted in more than one way.

Republican, freepers, have chosen to think it means that those who voted for, or would have voted for Gore, were predominantly not regular, or even at all, church attenders, has been spun to make it appear that those who voted for Gore are ungodly. It validates them calling us baby killers, and un-Christian, and a number of other insulting names.

A second interpretation is that the Evangelical Right wing, which currently is running the government, is totally brainwashed at least once a week, if not more times a week. I have tried, in the past, to join such churches, but I was not met with Christian love, but with rejection. I refused to be brainwashed. I was not accepted.

Those who prefer to think for themselves, realize the danger of the corruption of many churches and no longer attend. I do not attend for that reason.

A believer of the teachings of Jesus Christ at my core, I cannot stomach the corruption and political distortion of His teachings.

And being very practical, I had to remember to capitalize "His."

I also think Buddha is pretty great, and Buddha was here before Christ.

I will not attend any Christian church unless and until, they get the hell out of politics and worry about the souls of the dead, the suffering of the living, and openly espouse an antipathy for greed. I reject and am sickened by their using their power, under the guise of their interpretations of God's word as political weaponry and brainwashing. Their selling, on a recent tel evangelical site of tapes on how to avoid paying taxes, how to invest your greedy savings, how to get richer and more self-indulgent through selfishness, prompted me to make the call and tell them they were disgusting.

Two interpretations.

I rest my case.

[spooky3]

15. Research shows that religious attendance figures in polls like this

are consistently higher than actual attendance.

People like to present themselves "positively".

[PVnRT]

16. So, like everything else

There are two extremes that take most of the replies, with a chunk in the middle. No big surprise.

What's interesting is that the same % of people who say the attend weekly services is the same % that say religion doesn't affect their vote.

[ThePandaBear]

17. I hate religion

I consider religion to be the belief in something that makes no sense. If you believe that some dead Jewish religious leader is going to rise from the dead and save 1/3 of mankind from Satan while the other 2/3's of mankind who picked the wrong religion burn in hell, I don't care. I think you are loony but I don't care.

Just keep this stupid garbage out of the government. Get God off our money, get it out of the pledge, quit starting Congress with prayers, quit trying to start class with prayers, get the 10 commandments off the school walls, quit trying to keep homosexuals from marrying because Leviticus 20; 13 says it's ok to beat up on homosexuals, and quit complaining about lack of moral values that us heathens have.


The answer to the two questions are of course, do you go to church weekly? No. Does MY religion influence how you vote? No, and anyone who lets religion influence how they vote is a complete moron. But the politicians religion influences me. I would love to vote for an Atheist. The problem is, the only well known atheist to ever run for office is Ventura, a man I would proudly vote for, despite some policy differences I have with him. But I guess I am stuck with Kerry. He has shown to be a religious nut to a small extent, just not to the extent Bush is, so I guess he is the lesser of two evils. Damn this American two party system.

[lapauvre]

18. Amen. eom

[George_Bonanza]

20. Kerry a religious nut? Back that up...

The man has practically been threatened with excommunication by the Vatican for his pro-choice stances. He's a nut simply because he says that he believes in God and attends mass publicly every now and then?

[lapauvre]

19. We Americans didn't used to be so extremely

divided. There used to be a common meeting ground that had something to do with the common good of all Americans.

It was the mind set of that "greatest generation" of WWII. That generation we are honoring tomorrow.

There is no one who could watch historical, black and white, news camera footage of that landing on Normandy and not be brought to tears of regret, horror and extreme pride.

The word "hero" today has come to mean anybody who puts on a uniform.
Watch that ancient black and white footage and see heroes beyond measure.

If you want a definition of self sacrifice for the freedom of others from oppression; if you seek the definition of heroes; if you wonder about the title "greatest generation," watch those old black and white newsreels of what it was like, and what they did, and how they did it.

And then remember, the phrase "Under God," did not appear in the pledge of allegiance until 1957.

My father was not in the Army, but in the Army Air Corps. This is before we had an actual separate entity known as an Air Force. He was a stateside instructor for French pilots who were being trained in the US to fly the French bombers. My father was old, according to the military standards of that time. 35. Barely under the wire. But he spoke Louisiana Cajun French and they found a use for him.

I don't think it ever occurred to my father that he needed to say, "Under God" in his pledge.

By the way, that was the last war America actually won.