2008 Presidential Candidates on Religion

Religion is very important to the 2008 Presidential Candidates. Each of them discribed themselves as having a religious background. Some of them are more religious than others, and some of them tend to express their religious views quite frequently. Religion plays a big part in everyday life, whenever its at work, at school or at home. You tend to see religion everywhere, epecially in politics. Even in politics, there is religion. There should be a separation of church and state. That is what the law said, but sometimes it hard to talk about politics without talking about religion too. The 2008 Presidential Candidates needs religious voters to vote for them, especially Christian voters. Since Christianity make up the largest religious population in the world, it is obivous that they go more for the Christians voters, but other religions are important as well. Religion plays a part in very person's life whatever they like it or not.

This is a summary analysis of some of the 2008 Presidential Candidate on religious expressions

Democrats
1. John Edwards: 28% very religious, 56% somewhat religious, 16% not too/not at all religious
2. Barack Obama: 24% very religious, 60% somewhat religious, 16% not too/not at all religious
3. Hillary Clinton: 16% very religious, 53% somewhat religious, 31% not too/not at all religious

Republicans
1. Mitt Ronmey: 46% very religious, 44% somewhat religious, 10% not too/not at all religious
2. John McCain: 19% very religious, 66% somewhat religious, 15% not too/not at all religious
3. Fred Thompson: 16% very religious, 65%c somewhat religious, 19% not too/not at all religious
4. Rudy Giuliani: 14% very religious, 63% somewhat religious, 23% not too/not at all religious

(August 2007 Poll)


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