Reading Time: 4 minutes The heavy Democratic lean of the nonreligious vote presents both an opportunity and a problem for the party.

Philip Schwadel
Philip Schwadel is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Before that, he received his PhD from Penn State and was a Postdoctoral Researcher with the National Study of Youth and Religion. His research focuses on Americans’ religious and political behaviors—and the intersections between the two—with emphases on the associations between religion and social class, social contexts, social change, and youth.