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The good folks at Bachmann vs. the Machine (dangit! Sorry, Jeff.) Wetterling had an interesting post today citing a Slate article on a survey on religion and politics. Got that? They had something that someone else wrote about what someone else did. And now I'm writing about it. God bless the blogosphere, I say.
The gist of the article was that Democrats do not poll well as being "friendly toward religion." OK, cased closed, the Republicans win and the heathens go home, right? Not exactly.
The poll says that more than 60 percent of those surveyed think liberals have gone too far in trying to keep religion out of schools (it wasn't a school but think "Bunnygate" to see how easy it is to answer that question). But the poll also says that nearly half those surveyed think conservative Christians have gone too far in imposing their religious values on the country.
The survey actually says 20-percent of those surveyed think the Democrats are unfriendly toward religion; the same as 2005. But, as Slate points out, this number was 40 percent in 2004. Thirteen percent says Republicans are unfriendly toward religion, up four percent from 2005.
The article in Slate says "Which is why it is startling that in the two years since this Democratic revival began, the party
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