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Some journalists went so far as to employ statistics to justify equating religion with conservatism. "Over the past two decades, polls show, highly secularized and nonreligious Americans are more apt to vote Democrat and the highly religious Republican," Kenneth Woodward claimed in Newsweek. Unfortunately, such polls have the tendency to reduce the religious and
political possibilities to a simple binary choice. They obscure the religious
left, abstract the religious right, and ignore a burgeoning center. Even
so, reporters clung to this old model, reluctant to attempt more creative
kinds of analysis. |