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ElboRuum

(4,717 posts)
4. So long as the Republicans...
Sun Dec 9, 2012, 03:36 PM
Dec 2012

...keep injecting appeal to voters based upon such things as "return to traditional values" or the intimation that this is a Christian nation first and foremost, they'll never get an atheists vote (at least one that isn't otherwise conscripted into the Religion of Rand).

The Republicans should be really afraid of this demography shift, because this increase is showing little sign of stopping.

Of course, this doesn't mean all "religiously unaffiliated" means atheist, however, I don't see these people vesting religious ideologies in their voting habits regardless, and Republicans seem convinced that the megachurch crowd is where all the votes are.

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