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On this edition of Meet the Press: an exclusive interview with Senator Rick Santorum; Mike Strawn and Chuck Todd discuss the upcoming Iowa Caucuses; insights and analysis from Kathie Obradovich, Mike Murphy, Mark Halperin, David Brooks, and Andrea Mitchell.

On this edition of Meet the Press: Speaker of the House John Boehner discusses taxes and debt and the failure of Congress to act; Michele Bachmann discusses her bid for the GOP presidential nomination; Governor Nikki Haley discusses her endorsement of Mitt Romney; insights and analysis from Mike Murphy and E.J. Dionne.

On this edition of Meet the Press: Ron Paul discusses his prospects for the GOP presidential nomination; Senators Dick Durbin and Lindsey Graham discuss the payroll tax debate; insights and analysis from Alex Castellanos, Ted Koppel, Lisa Myers, Chuck Todd, and Governor Terry Branstad.

Thanks to the work of politics and religion scholars, we now know a lot about the relationship between religion and voting in American presidential general elections. However, we know less about the influence of religion on individual vote choice in presidential primaries. This article fills that gap by exploring the relationship between religion and candidate preference in the 2008 and 2012 Republican primaries. Using pre-Super Tuesday surveys conducted by the Pew Research Center, I find that the Republican candidate who most explicitly appealed to religious voters (Mike Huckabee in 2008 and Rick Santorum in 2012) was the preferred candidate of Republican respondents who attended religious services at the highest levels, and that as attendance increased, so did the likelihood of preferring that candidate. I also find that identification as a born again Christian mattered to candidate preference. Specifically, born again Christians were more likely than non-born again Christians to prefer Huckabee to Mitt Romney, John McCain and Ron Paul in 2008, and Santorum to Romney in 2012. Although ideology was not the primary subject of this article, I find that ideology was also a statistically significant predictor of Republican candidate preference in both 2008 and 2012. This robust finding reinforces scholars' prior work on the importance of ideology in explaining presidential primary vote choice. The overall findings of the paper provide evidence that religion variables can add to our understanding of why voters prefer one candidate over another in presidential primaries.