Many elections are decided by less than two percent, including presidential elections.
But I would agree it was the perjury that turned this one. A similar phenomenon is emerging in Kansas. People with long histories of promoting creationism are claiming no religious motives.
I find this odd, since the major ID proponents do not dispute the fact of evolution.
The Supreme Court ruling of 1987 against "Creationism" in
schools forces the mental gymnastics of ID as an end run against that ruling. (You mean the "G" word without using the "G' word). Its sad to live in a country where courts
are banning the use of the word "God" like the Supreme
Court did in the 1987 Creationism ruling and most recently
the 9th Circus Court in California and others regarding
the Pledge of Allegience. These rulings come from the minds of people who want us to believe that the government is God, so we must ban the use of the "G" word and call it
"separation of church and state." (a phrase that does not
appear in our constitution, but in Communist ones)