Sarah Posner explores whether his religious outreach worked:
In the last weeks of the campaign, when Obama solidified his majority, he did it without the God talk and with the let's-roll-up-our-sleeves-and-right-our-beloved-country's-course-again talk. It was a prayer of sorts, the kind that Americans of all religious and nonreligious stripes want answered.
The real headline is not how religious voters propelled Obama into office but how alliances between religious groups and progressives can be used to advance a progressive agenda on issues on which they may agree, such as the economy, the environment, or international human rights.
--The Editors
