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You are now changing that to more religious, more likely to be conservative. That is quite different from your initial claim of religious vs. non-religious.

Get real, " the religious right", "social conservatives", "the Evangelical vote", "the born again vote", "the Bible belt vote", they don't mean that every Christian votes conservative, since almost 80% of Americans will label themselves Christian, but they do mean that of the ones that take it seriously most of them make up the bulk of the conservative portion of voters.

Everyone knows that the despised Christian vote is owned by the GOP and that the hip, enlightened vote of the atheists and the less religious and non religious are owned by the Democrats.

I have never seen anything, that tries to sell the idea that atheists are mostly conservative (or anything other than almost all liberal voters), yet we do know that the deeply religious Christians are conservative.

Atheists are not big enough to have their own category in this graph, but you will not find many of them among McCain voters.

You seem to agree in this sentence saying that highly religious Christians are attracted to the Republican party, by the way, I never said anything about religion being the only reason to vote a certain way, I only pointed out that believing Christians (and Jews) are naturally conservative and that people that are not very Christian, or are atheist, are drawn to the left. "There are far more reasons than religion to vote a certain way. There is no natural affinity between modern liberalism and atheism. There is an attraction of highly-religious Christians to the Republican party,"

Now it changes again. Your chart shows that highly religious whites voted for McCain (itself definitely not a measure of conservative values). Notice another factor in there other than religion? I noticed religious blacks and Mexicans voted Obama. Blacks, who tend to be more religious than whites, voted for Obama in an even higher percentage than WASPs voted McCain.

I only pointed out that believing Christians (and Jews) are naturally conservative and that people that are not very Christian, or are atheist, are drawn to the left.

Drawn to the left, or repelled by the right? From what I was reading on atheist boards in 2008, a lot of atheists didn't like Obama but couldn't bring themselves to vote Republican because of the religious right issue. Most people vote what they perceive to be in their best interest. They voted to keep the religious from dictating their lives. I voted McCain because the continued existence of the country was more important to me than the issue of religion.

There is no part of the Democrat platform that is inherently attractive to atheists, they just do not scorn and reject atheists.