Reply #28: Very good points. I would argue, though, that Cotati, CA...

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is not representative of the country at large. What people do there isn't necessarily what people do throughout the Midwest, the South, and what have you.

Like I said in an earlier post, I'm not a religious person myself. But I do think it would be foolish for a politican to ignore religious people, as there are massive amounts of them in this country. You can argue whether the percentage is 85 percent, or 77 percent or even way, way lower. But even if the percentage of Church-going Christians is only 50 percent or 45 percent or whatever, it still doesn't make sense for a politician to ignore what essentially comprises one of the largest voting blocs in the country, no? And even if it's 50 percent, that's still exactly what Christians are.