Our latest New Hampshire polling took a look at how important registered voters say it is for presidential candidates to share their views on a variety of subjects. Here’s the percent saying “very important” on each political issue we tested:

Then we asked those registered voters who belonged to an organized religion how important it was to them that a presidential candidate shared that same religion. Just 4% said it was very important. 37% said it wasn’t important at all.

Registered voters with a religious affiliation were then asked to make choices in three hypothetical presidential elections:

• 94% choose a candidate who shares their views on major issues but practices a different religion over one who shares the same faith but disagrees with the voter on major issues.
• 40% choose a same-religion, like-minded candidate who attends religious services regularly; 26% choose a same-religion, like-minded candidate who attends services occasionally.
• 61% choose a candidate who shares their views but is an atheist;  21% would choose a candidate who disagrees on the issues but shares the voter’s same religion.

Research conducted for WBZ-TV Boston; full results, including crosstabs by religion and by whether or not respondents consider themselves to be born again, are here .