Two surprising movies this year have drawn entirely different audiences to the theatre.

Fahrenheit 9-11, Michael Moore's entry into the election debate, has an audience that is 47% liberal, 26% moderate, and 25% conservative. The audience for Mel Gibson's Passion of Christ is 51% conservative, 27% moderate, and 21% liberal.

Other demographic differences abound:

• Women make up 42% of the audience for Fahrenheit 9-11 and 53% for Passion.
• The President's Job Approval among Fahrenheit viewers is 26%. Among Passion fans, it's 58%.
• The partisan make-up for Moore's movie is 47% Democrat, 19% Republican, and 34% unaffiliated. For Gibson's, the audience is 41% Republican, 36% Democrat, and 23% unaffiliated.
• Fahrenheit fans will vote for Democrats in Congress by a 66% to 20% margin. The Passion crowd will vote for Republicans by a 48% to 39% margin.

There is a bit of common ground between the movies. Fans of both named Rock'n'Roll as their favorite music. However, Classical music was the second choice of the Fahrenheit 9-11 audience while country music ranked second among the Passion audience.