A Trend from the Land Down Under?

Jim Wallis reports from Australia that in their election of a Labor government last November, a "pivotal" cause was the swing in votes of some evangelicals and pentecostals (see here), based on "new" issues like climate change, global poverty, and the Iraq war and on the presence of an openly religious (Catholic) party leader.  Those factors are operating here, although we don't know how strongly and you'd want to compare  Obama's specific positions with how Kevin Rudd as PM has handled similar issues.

At any rate, the Australian headline "On a swing and a prayer" is clever.