c that votes, still concentrates very much on political candidates religion. Whether or not religion will continue to be a constructive voice in politics in the decades a head is an open question. Scientific materialism has made it more difficult for religious believer to effectively join the public debate: and the dramatic secularization of public life in recent years has added new barriers to mixing faith in politics. Even so, the United States remains one of the most religious nations in the industrialized world, and it would be foolish to discount the inherent power of religious idealism for animating social and political reform.Many changes have come forth since the days of the founders of the country. Many positive controversial events have marked the nation with positive march to change in the voter’s opinon of presidential-vice presidential candidates.John Fitzgerald Kennedy in 1960, when he won the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination for president. In the general election, Kennedy faced opposition from some conservative Christian groups and fundamentalist, especially in the southern states, (which have traditionally been conservative and voted Republican) , because he was Roman Catholic. In the November election, however being Catholic helped him win the industrial east where a large number of Catholics lived . He just narrowly defeated Richard Nixon. He was the first Roman Catholic elected president of the United States. As President he was said to have proved that tall of the anti-Catholic concerns that he would be religiously committed to Rome was unfounded, he was said to have created a public-personal barrier and firmly placed his catholic ideology in the realm of private. In more current elections, the current vice president and democratic candidate for president chose his running mate, as Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman. “Charting an independent course from president Bill Clinton while m...
