The Non-Religious Vote

I've been going through exit polls past and present and among other patterns, I've noticed that the number of voters that give "none" as their religion has been increasing every election, albeit slowly. Not only that, but these non-religious voters appear to be getting more Democratic every year.

1996 - 7% None - 56% for Clinton
2000 - 9% None - 61% for Gore
2004 - 10% None - 67% for Kerry
2008 - 12% None - 75% for Obama

These non-religious voters seem to be coming from formerly Jewish and other minority religious voters as the percentage of Christian voters has remained steady since 2000 at about 81% after falling 5% between 1996 and 2000. Since Jews and other religious minorities tend to vote for Democrats, then it kind of makes sense that the non-religious voters would vote for Democrats.

In other news, Jewish voters apparently didn't hear that Obama was a Muslim that will destroy Israel as 78% voted for him. Either that, or people who called Obama a Muslim were racist who felt more comfortable saying they didn't want to vote for a "Muslim" than a black man.