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This poll ran from January 28 to February 3, 2008.

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"The United States is a Christian nation." True 1379/68% False 655/32%

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Senator John McCain, from an interview with Beliefnet.com on October 5, 2007. McCain said "the Constitution established the United States of America as a Christian nation."

Writing in the New York Times on October 7, Jon Meacham, the editor of Newsweek magazine, commented on the question of the Constitution: "The only acknowledgment of God in the original Constitution is a utilitarian one: the document is dated "in the year of our Lord 1787." Even the religion clause of the First Amendment is framed dryly and without reference to any particular faith. The Connecticut ratifying convention debated rewriting the preamble to take note of God's authority, but the effort failed."

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