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\u201cCandidates do often benefit from talking about their personal faith, but once that becomes politicized it can create some real problems for them, so they tend to stick to other sets of issues.\u201d Watch more of our interview with University of Akron professor John Green on the political implications of the rising numbers of religiously unaffiliated voters.<\/p>\n

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\u201cCandidates do often benefit from talking about their personal faith, but once that becomes politicized it can create some real problems for them, so they tend to stick to other sets of issues.\u201d Watch more of our interview with University … More →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":17980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6569],"tags":[6277,10874,984,10872],"class_list":["post-13470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videocast","tag-john-green","tag-none-of-the-above","tag-politics","tag-religiously-unaffiliated","topics-politics"],"yoast_head":"\nOctober 19, 2012 ~ John Green Extended Interview | March 8, 2013 | Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly | PBS<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"\u201cCandidates do often benefit from talking about their personal faith, but once that 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