Majority of Americans want president who respects church/state separation.

[Baruch]

People narrow their ideology, to narrow their party membership, to take over the leadership of their party.  That is how Hitler took over the Nazi party ... he didn't start it, he was originally just an unemployed flunky.

People broaden their ideology, to widen their party membership ... after they have taken the party over, thru ruthless Machiavellian machinations ;-)  Buy you have to do this sequentially ... you can't do both at the same time.

[Solomon Zorn]

42% are sheep. But their shepherds have $$ eyes. Mutton is expensive, and they'll serve up the flock to whoever will pay.

Given that most of them are probably trying to do what they think is right, even well-meaning people vote their easily-manipulated-fears. If the preacher says it, they trust it. Right wing talk-radio has taken the religious extreme-right to a new level of influence in the mainstream thought-pool. Here's my favorite political site. It exposes what so many of them are saying: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/

My question about the 56/42 spread is this: how has that number changed in the past 20 years? Is it like AllPurposeAtheist thinks, and the number of church-state-separation advocates has grown? I hope it's moving in the right direction.