Non-religious voters wield clout, tilt heavily Democratic in Pennsylvania and nationwide
Voters with no religious affiliation supported Democratic candidates and abortion rights by staggering percentages in the 2022 midterm elections. And the religiously unaffiliated are growing. Twenty-nine percent of U.S. adults identified as atheist, agnostic or "nothing in particular" in a 2021 report by the Pew Research Center — up 10 percentage points in a decade.