| Article: | Why I cannot vote for Obama “There is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains greater influence over the souls of men than in America … Christianity, therefore, reigns without obstacle, by universal consent. ... In the United States, religion ... is mingled with all the habits of the nation and feelings of patriotism, whence it derives a peculiar force.” Alec De Tocqueville, author of “Democracy in America,” from observations of America in the 1830s. |