Chart of the Day - 12.09.2008

| Tue Dec. 9, 2008 6:33 PM EST

CHART OF THE DAY....Adapted from Secular Right, here's a graph showing frequency of prayer plotted against strength of partisanship. The data is from the General Social Survey. Apparently, strong political partisans also tend to pray a lot. Weak partisans and independents, not so much. The effect is roughly the same if you confine the analysis to whites only.

Why? Is it just a reflection that some people are strong believers and others aren't, and this temperamental cast applies to everything they believe in? Or is it something else? Speculate away!