The results from the latest Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life show that atheists politicians are still the least likely to get votes:
WASHINGTON (AP) — One in four people in the U.S. said in a recent poll that they would be less likely to support a presidential candidate who is Mormon, an ominous sign for Republican contender Mitt Romney.
Yet the survey found two groups, atheists and Muslims, were even less likely to win votes.
Sixty-one percent of those questioned said they would be less likely to support a presidential candidate who did not believe in God. Forty-five percent said the same for a Muslim contender.
Only 5 percent or fewer said they would be likelier to support candidates who were atheists, Muslims or Mormons, according to the poll by two nonpartisan research groups, the Pew Research Center and the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life.
We’re behind Muslims for crying out loud. Hello?? Muslims flew the fucking planes into the Twin Towers, remember? And they did it because they believed god was on their side. You don’t have to worry about atheists doing stupid shit because they think god wants them to, we don’t believe in gods!
Of course the real reason why we’re so unpopular is the simple fact that we won’t favor one religious group over another and for many Christians that’s not a good thing if you want to get those pesky Ten Commandments on the court house wall or prayer back into public schools again.
Posted on 09/10/2007 at 02:44 PM 
I’ll play something of Devil’s Advocate here, and note that while putative Muslims flew planes into the World Trade Center, putative Atheists (i.e., “Godless Commies") ran the Cold War against us sfor many more decades, and are still (as “Godless Chinese Commies") considered a threat.
As for me, I’m less concerned with the label on someone’s ideology than in how they apply that ideology (or adapt it) to the leadership challenges they would face as president. I don’t care if a candidate is a Mormon, a Muslim, a Jew, a Christian, an Atheist, or a Jedi—how do they approach international relations, science, economic growth, climate change, health care, etc.
Knowing the formal basis for those actions (their beliefs) can help predicting that, but as the wide variety of actions by various Christian presidents over the centuries amply demonstrates, just knowing the religious/ideological label doesn’t tell you a whole lot about what a candidate will actually do.