The Disappearing God Gap?

After the reelection of George W. Bush in 2004 the God Gap became a hotly debated political issue. Religious voters were seen as the key to Bush''s victory and Democrats began scrambling to reach out to them. Four years later however with the economy in a tailspin on election day religion barely seemed to register on people''s radar screens. In this book a team of well-regarded scholars digs deeper to examine the role religion played in the 2008 campaign. They take a long view placing the election in historical context and looking at the campaign as a whole from the primaries through all the way through election day. At the heart of their analysis is data gleaned from a national survey conducted by the authors in which voters were interviewed in the spring of 2008 and then re-interviewed after the election.