Ramesh Ponnuru writes in National Review of an activist workshop at this week’s Democratic Convention. The speakers were Stanley Greenberg and James Carville.

Greenberg made a few other comments that drew applause. Every time Carville or Greenberg mentioned Bill Clinton, the crowd went wild — far more so than when they said nice things about the current nominee. There was also clapping when Greenberg mentioned one of his cutesily named demographic groups: the “secular warriors,” “people who don’t own guns and don’t go to church.” They’re solid for Kerry — and, as Greenberg noted after the applause, were well represented in this auditorium.

So we learn from this that people who “don’t go to church” are “well represented” at the meetings of the activists within the Democratic party. I believe that within the leadership of the Democratic party, there is an ignorance about people of faith, because there is a dearth of people of faith in the ranks of leadership. That the activists of the Democratic party will clap when the speaker just mentions people who don’t go to church tells you something about who they are.