Cenk Uygur
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Non-Religious Voters Won Obama's Reelection
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December 11, 2012
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3:45Now Playing"The big demographic story out of the 2012 presidential election may have been President Obama's domination of the Hispanic vote, and rightfully so.
But as we close the book on the election, it bears noting that another less obvious bloc of key swing state voters helped the president win a second term.
They're the "nones" — that's the Pew Research Center's shorthand for the growing number of American voters who don't have a specific religious affiliation. Some are agnostic, some atheist, but more than half define themselves as either "religious" or "spiritual but not religious," Pew found in a recent survey."*
Non-religious people- be they atheist, agnostic, or just spiritual instead of religious- are an overlooked category of voters who ended up making a huge difference in the 2012 elections, helping to swing the election for Obama. Cenk Uygur discusses what may be a new voting group candidates pay attention to in elections.
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