How religion played in yesterday’s election

Mark Silk, at Religion News Service, looks at the religious numbers of yesterday’s electorate. Most numbers were similar to recent elections past, with one exception:

The one group that appears to have shifted significantly compared to the last midterm were members of “other religions” — Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, etc. In 2010, three out of four voted Democratic, while this time around it was two out of three. And given that their proportion of the vote increased from 8 percent to 11 percent, that was not a trivial number of votes.

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