Spin

Here's a little quiz. Two newspapers, the the New York Times and the Washington Times, wrote stories about the same Pew Forum study. Here are the leads: see if you can match lead to newspaper:

1. Few see Democrats as friendly to religion
   Liberal or progressive Christians, who make up 34 percent of the population, are disunified on key issues, and only one out of four Americans considers the Democratic Party friendly to religion, a Pew poll shows.

2. In Poll, G.O.P. Slips as a Friend of Religion
   A new poll shows that fewer Americans view the Republican Party as "friendly to religion" than a year ago, with the decline particularly steep among Catholics and white evangelical Protestants — constituencies at the core of the Republicans’ conservative Christian voting bloc.

Stumped? Didn't think so. For more on this topic, read Terry Mattingly's analysis at Get Religion. (via dotCommonweal.)