DEMS GET RELIGION

Attempting to stake their claim to people of faith, Democrats struggle to show their religious, too:

The ballroom at the Sheraton Boston Hotel on Wednesday was filled with representatives from the Jewish, Muslim and Christian faiths, including Evangelicals and Baptists, who said it was okay to mix politics and religion in an effort to fulfill long-standing goals of eradicating poverty and taking care of the most needy Americans.

Still, even attendees at the event admitted that the caucus was a novelty.

Still, one of the main predictors of whether someone will vote Republican is how often he attends church:

A 2003 poll released by the Pew Center for People and Religion found that those surveyed who went to a religious service more than twice weekly were 63 percent more likely to vote Republican, while 37 percent vote Democrat. On the flip side, 62 percent of people who attended a service only once a year or not at all were more likely to vote Democratic, while 38 percent go Republican.

That's a startling gap, of course. And while I'm not the guy to ask for a GOP endorsement these days, the Dems have a long way to go before they can appeal to the sincerely religious with a straight face.