2 out of 3 say no! Wow, I wonder who you polled? Even if we don't understand how it works (some may be praying for one candidate, some for the other), I can't believe that God omits the political arena from all His promises for answered prayer.

YES. pray, Pray, PRAY! Then pray some more!

I believe wholeheartedly that prayer not only will work for this election but is vitally important. For one reason to say that it wont work is to say that prayer works for some things and not for others. Well God IS a prayer answering God and He dont play favorites. Prayer changes ALL things. And change is what we need in this society that has all but put prayer on the back burner in life when it should be our first resort in all things. The bible says men ought always to pray & pray w/o ceasing. So in other words there is no wrong time or wrong thing to pray for. A prayer for this election & the candidates is a petition to God that His high will be done & not our faltered & sometimes even unethical will. We want this election & this presidency to be the catylist that the United States needs to bring us back to the simple but oh so true virtues that our parents & grandparents tried to instill in us that we have forgotten & need to remember to teach the next generation. So a prayer for this election is not just for that purpose but for our future.

Prayer changes hearts. It changes our hearts as we pray and prepares us to accept the outcome of the election with more open hearts. Prayer assaults evil and assists good. Whoever wins will need our prayers for the next four years.

There are places in the Bible where God "hardens" or "softens" leaders' hearts. Perhaps our prayers for the election should be that each candidates' heart be more aligned with God's. Ultimately we can pray that whoever is elected will seek and respond to God's leading and will make decisions that are consistent with God's character.

Any time you pray it makes a difference, if only to reassure God that you know he can take care of things no matter which way they go. Whether He will answer the way one hopes I suppose depends on how many prayers are being offered for the opponent to win!

Hi, been gone for a week and what a subject. Yes pray for whom you want to win. God already knows who won and how that will go, but and here again is the but. He gave us free will so that we could and should show our love for what he has set forth in scripture. Who will be best in your opinion, not mine, but yours? I know who I will vote for and for many reasons. I also know who I will not vote for and for many more reasons. I served this country for over 24 years as a soldier and now for the last three years as a civilian. I have seen things in many different countries and have seen what they think of US. On the most part they are worried about what their governments are doing and not ours, as we are concerned about what our leaders will do in our name. Yes, vote and do it with the knowledge that God will do what is best for us all. It may not look like it at first, just after the election to some, but He will be with us as He has said all a long. In God's Grace John

Wow! 2 out of three say no!
This is the problem where the people who calls themself as Christian is no longer believing in the prayer ... no longer making contacts with Abba Father ...
No wonder we are having a moral decay in this great and Christian nation ...

There is a difference between the questions, "WIll prayer effect the election," and "Can prayer effect the election."

One thing we know: we don't know HOW God will respond to our prayers, as to the election or anything else. C.S. Lewis responded to a skeptical fellow Oxford professor, who asked if he really believed that God would grant something because he prayed for it, "Of course not. I don't pray to change God, I pray to change me." Abraham Lincoln observed in his Second Inaugural Address that both sides in the Civil War prayed to the same God, that God could not answer the prayers of both sides, and might not fully answer the prayers of either one. He observed afterward that men do not like to be reminded that the Almighty has purposes other than our own. I personally believe that God would never forgive me if I voted for McCain. However, I know that millions of my fellow citizens, including millions of Christians, will do so, and I don't believe God will condemn them to eternity in the lake of fire for it. God might even reward them for it, even while allowing Obama to win the election. OR vice versa, for those with differing opinions. By all means pray, but don't blame God if the outcome is not what you prayed for. Better yet, pray to help you understand what you should do, then relax and allow what God decides, or chooses to allow, unfold.

it not a comment but a prayer request to find God in my studies as i'm approaching my varsity exams and hear his voice when he speaks to me