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None is righteous . . .

A Wonky (NPR Online) report reads:

[In the 2012 presidential election] the growing number of voters not aligned with a specific religion helped Obama overcome deficits with Protestants and Catholics in key swing states. The Pew Research Center calls this group "nones" — agnostics, atheists and those who define themselves simply as "religious" or "spiritual but not religious."

Since each none is already part of a larger demographic group it might be tempting to say something like "What difference would it have made if an African-American woman in Cincinnati with a federal government job or a gay male college student in Pittsburgh also just happens to be an atheist?" but that would be simplistic, like the left's long-held belief that every churchgoer is automatically a Tea Party Patriot.  If only . . . READ THE REST

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