With the nation’s longest election campaign ever finally completed, and Barack Obama emerging as a 53% to 46% victor over Sen. John McCain, a new election analysis survey by The Barna Group provides the details of how people of faith voted in 2008.

News about the candidates and the election seemed ubiquitous for the past 18 months. Overall, two-thirds of all registered voters (67%) said they followed the 2008 election campaign “very closely” and another one-quarter (27%) followed it “somewhat closely.” People who do not consider themselves to be Christians followed the campaign slightly more closely than did those who claim to be Christian (71% versus 67%).

To place that interest level in context, the 2000 election between George W. Bush and Al Gore, which ended in a dead heat, was followed “very closely” by just 43% of registered voters.

To read the results of the survey, go here. [Editors note: the original URL (link) referenced in this article is no longer valid, so the link has been removed.]