I really don't think religion is playing as big a role in elections as religionists and the news media like to claim. They were viewed as the swing votes in the last few elections, because the electorate has been so profoundly divided on so many issues. But that will not be the case in the next elections. The country is no longer so divided on the issue of Iraq, or on which party is the least incompetent in terms of national security, economics, and emergency preparedness. So a few religious fanatics voting entirely on banning abortion and gay marriage are not going to hold any significant number of swing votes. And the result will be that neither party will have to pander to them as they felt they did in the past elections.
My own concern regarding the religions of our politicians is that they be able to set their personal religious beliefs aside so that they can represent the people who elected them, instead of their gods. I don't want any politician doing God's will. I want them doing our will. And if they can't do that, they should be honest enough to resign, or refuse the office in the first place. And I sure will NOT vote for any politician who claims he's going to restore America to a "Godly nation" or that he has a mandate from God to set us all aright in God's eyes. And I doubt that many other Americans would, either. We may be a nation made up of mostly Christians, but we definitely are not a "Christian nation" and we never were.
Thank God!