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Mitt Romney faces the same level of prejudice against his religion as his father George Romney did in 1967, with 18% of Americans saying they would not vote for a well-qualified presidential candidate who is a Mormon.

U.S. Jews and nonreligious Americans tend to be more liberal on moral issues than Protestants, Catholics and Mormons. Mormons diverge from all other groups on the morality of premarital sex and gambling.

Despite some conventional wisdom to the contrary, there is very little gender distinction in Republicans' support for the two leading GOP presidential candidates, Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum.

Mississippi is the most religious U.S. state, with almost six in 10 residents classified as "very religious." Vermont and New Hampshire are the least religious states, with fewer than one in four very religious residents.

Americans continue to place little confidence in the nation's major institutions, with their average confidence levels nearing record lows. Confidence in newspapers and in organized religion both dropped to their lowest levels yet.

Very religious white Americans continue to be one of the most Republican segments of the U.S. population: 62% identify with or lean toward the Republican Party, and 27% identify as Democrats. Partisanship among Hispanics and Asians -- but not ...

Provo-Orem, Utah, is the most religious of 189 U.S. metropolitan areas Gallup surveyed in 2012 -- 77% of its residents are very religious. Burlington, Vt., and Boulder, Colo., are the least religious, with 17% very religious.

Black Americans have become more liberal on abortion rights, but they remain less so than is the case among Democrats overall.

Mitt Romney leads Barack Obama by 54% to 37% among very religious voters in Gallup's latest five-day Daily tracking average. Obama leads by 61% to 30% among those who are nonreligious.

Very religious white Americans are more than twice as likely to identity with the Republican Party, while nonreligious whites are more likely to identify with the Democratic Party. This relationship is also evident to a lesser degree among ...