David Dalin is a Conservative rabbi and a professor of history and political science at Ave Maria University in Naples, Fla. He has written about Jews and American political history and about the influence of Jews on the presidency.

Kevin Bumgarner is executive editor of Florida Baptist Witness, a weekly newspaper based in Jacksonville, Fla., and criticized the Democrats’ effort to reach out to religious voters during the 2004 election.

Elaine Kamarck is a lecturer in public policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. She was a senior policy adviser to the 2000 Gore campaign for president and worked in the Clinton-Gore administration.

Samuel Abrams is a political science professor at Sarah Lawrence College in New York. He is the author of Culture War? The Myth of a Polarized America.

Read an analysis from the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life about how those of faith voted in the 2012 election.

Read a Nov. 7, 2012, article talking about how President Barack Obama did with white religious voters versus nonwhite religious voters.

Read a Nov. 8, 2012, article from the American Spectator about how Catholic and evangelical voters supported the Republican candidate in the 2012 election.

Read an essay by Melissa Harris Lacewell ( Harris-Perry)posted on the Martin Marty Center website about African-American religion and its relationship to politics and voting.

Kristen Day is executive director of Democrats for Life of America, an organization that works toward the election of Democrats who oppose abortion.