{"id":609,"date":"2008-05-13T21:34:52","date_gmt":"2008-05-13T21:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/2008\/05\/no-god-gap-in-west-virginia.html"},"modified":"2008-05-13T21:34:52","modified_gmt":"2008-05-13T21:34:52","slug":"no-god-gap-in-west-virginia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2008\/05\/no-god-gap-in-west-virginia.html","title":{"rendered":"No God Gap in West Virginia?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"hillary3.jpg\"Here’s what Hillary Clinton’s faith outreach director just said about Clinton’s victory tonight in Virginia via email:<\/p>\n

There continues to be no emerging trend lines other than the one established at the beginning of the Democratic Primary: American faith and values voters connect with and support Senator Clinton. Tonight in West Virginia there is no difference.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But is it true?
\nSure, Clinton’s enjoyed a huge advantage among white religious voters in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Indiana. But Clinton’s West Virginia landslide owed little to the God gap. Clinton won weekly and more-than-weekly churchgoers <\/a> by 60-percent and 66-percent, respectively. Impressive. But she won similar proportions of infrequent churchgoers and those who sleep in on Sundays–who typically comprise Obama’s base–claiming 70-percent and 63-percent of those voters, respectively.
\nNo God gap there.
\nAnd Catholics, among whom Obama has been trounced by Clinton in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Indiana, broke for Clinton by a much smaller margin in West Virginia, by 52-percent to 45-percent.
\nSure, Hillary shellacked Obama in West Virginia today. But religion may have played a smaller role than expected.<\/p>\n


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