ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the political impact of religion during the 1992 presidential election. It considers a number of other variables measured in the sampling in addition to the measures of traditional family values and economy evaluation in order to assess if there were differences between the three religious categories in terms of which variables were most important in determining how people voted. In examining those variables that independently influenced vote, which differed between the three religious categories, two could possibly be influenced by other religious factors. The most distinct factor that related to vote for Catholics was social class. Catholics of higher class levels and those who shared the economic perspective of the upper classes, Catholics of a more working-class level and those who were more likely to hold to the economic ideology of the working classes, i.e., economic liberalism, voted for Clinton.
