I have to tell you, my seven-year-old granddaughter said to my daughter, her mother, 'So what's the big deal about Grandma Maddy having been Secretary of State? Only girls are Secretaries of State.' Most of her lifetime, it's true. But at the time it really was a big deal.
I have come to the conclusion that while a candidate's faith matters, what's most important is how he or she applies that faith.
There is no reality of consciousness independent of the effects of various vehicles of content on subsequent action (and hence, of course, on memory).