Abstract
This study introduces the concept of civil religion to presidential voting research and tests its explanatory power in comparison to traditionally used variables. Civil religion is a view that the nation is subject to a divine will and that its affairs must be evaluated from that perspective. Social scientists and others have described the presidency as a central role in American civil religion. As anticipated from such literature, civil religious persons in political, religious, and community samples were more likely to favor Nixon. Among correlates with favored candidate, civil religion ranked ahead of most other variables and, in certain samples, ahead of party. Civil religion was typically more predictive than church religious factors, social background characteristics, and most political variables.
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