[Dimensio]

What seems much more significant to me though, is that it backs up my belief that atheists can be such zealots that they'll eat their own.

Atheism implies a lack of belief in gods. Atheism implies absolutely nothing else. You cannot discern a person's political or philosophical views merely from the fact that they are an atheist. As such, it is no surprise that atheists are not a single conglomerate entity. In fact, given that the only thing that they have in common is a trait that they don't posess, I would hardly expect a great deal of uniformity amongst all of us and I'm hardly surprised at all that many atheists have wildly different ideas on politics.

[Cold Heat]

Saw some stats recently on belief in God numbers.

Basically the stats said that some 97% of Republicans believed is God and the Democrats polled a resounding 83% or some in that range.

Tells me that most atheists are indeed democrats.

[Qwinn]

"Atheism implies a lack of belief in gods."

Incorrect. That would include agnostics as well. Being atheist implies an active DENIAL of the concept of gods. There's a tremendous difference.

Otherwise I don't differ with much in your post, other than that I have also noticed that most atheists are indeed on the Left. Wirestrider's numbers look about right to me.

Qwinn