Marco Rubioâ??s plan for the final days before the Iowa caucuses, according to The Washington Post, is to talk about God â?¦ a lot. And with all the focus on the evangelical Christian vote in Iowa â?? they make up nearly 60 percent of Republican caucus-goers and are credited with powering Ted Cruz into the top tier of the race â?? Rubioâ??s plan isnâ??t surprising.
But the mediaâ??s focus on evangelical Christians misses the larger story: The best predictor of vote choice, according to work by political scientists Robert Putnam of Harvard and David Campbell of Notre Dame, is religiosity, not religious affiliation; Putnam and Campbell call it the â??God gap.â?
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