Surprise, surprise! Not. Pew’s latest report
on religion and the Tea Party shows Tea Party support to be centrally
located in the community of white evangelicals, who are five times more
likely to agree than disagree with the T.P. agenda. By contrast, the
Nones (those Pew insists on calling “Unaffiliated”) are three times more
likely to disagree than agree. The fact that the Tea Party puts
tax-and-spend issues on its banner doesn’t mean that they’re
libertarians. It means that they’re the same old conservatives with a
different banner.

What some survey researcher needs to do now is
ask the worship attendance question and cross tabulate it with Tea Party
support. Then we’ll be able to compare frequent and less frequent
attenders across all denominations, and see exactly what the Tea Party
God Gap looks like.