Politics and Religion: The View from the Pews

Religion has probably always been a part of politics, but, in modern America, it's often linked with how the Civil Rights movement was powered from the pulpit and pews and the conservative "Silent Majority" Evangelical Christian political movement that began in the 80s. There's an assumption that when preachers and other religious figures take public political positions these influence the flock. But, do they? The data suggest otherwise. Then, we're revisiting the national issue of loneliness to talk about some really interesting data sets that speak to it in very different ways. Finally, Lee brings it home with a crazy fun fact right out of the Flintstones.