In reply to George Hulshart.

Since the claim that one candidate mentions Jesus by name more often was not accompanied by data, I fear that I have been nerd-sniped. I absolutely don't condone endorsing candidates based on word counts, but just for fun and out of personal curiosity, I counted some things.

Word count (calculated using the tool in Google Docs):
Benjamin T. Ball: 606
Joel D. Bierman: 598
Brady L. Finnern: 613
Matthew C. Harrison: 641
Peter K. Lange: 568

Surprisingly, some word counts came out to more than 600, which would be the maximum word count of 100 for each response, times six. Perhaps they determined what counted as a word differently.

Since saying more words gives candidates more opportunities to say things (and there was a total swing of 641-568 = 73 words), I have put in parentheses the percent of words and phrases from each candidate's total response. These were calculated by dividing by the word count, multiplying by 100, and rounding to the tenths place (a fairly arbitrary choice).

Here is the number of times each candidate said "Jesus":
Benjamin T. Ball: 1 (0.2%)
Joel D. Bierman: 5 (0.8%)
Brady L. Finnern: 1 (0.2%)
Matthew C. Harrison: 4 (0.6%)
Peter K. Lange: 2 (0.4%)

Here is the number of times each candidate said "Jesus", "Christ", "Lord", "Son", "Savior", or "Good Shepherd" (these are the names and titles I identified in these responses for the second person of the Trinity; I am counting "Jesus Christ" as 1, and not counting "Christian" or "Christianity"):
Benjamin T. Ball: 6 (1.0%)
Joel D. Bierman: 20 (3.3%)
Brady L. Finnern: 23 (3.8%)
Matthew C. Harrison: 8 (1.2%)
Peter K. Lange: 8 (1.4%)

Number of total mentions of God (including "God", "Holy Trinity", "Father", "Son", "Holy Spirit", "Jesus", etc., not counting pronouns that refer to God [e.g. "His"], counting "Savior" and "Good Shepherd", not counting "Word" except when it clearly refers primarily to the second person of the Trinity [i.e. Jesus is the Word, but Jesus is not the Bible], but counting "Word of God" because it contains "God"):
Benjamin T. Ball: 23 (3.8%)
Joel D. Bierman: 31 (5.2%)
Brady L. Finnern: 31 (5.1%)
Matthew C. Harrison: 15 (2.3%)
Peter K. Lange: 13 (2.3%)

Number of direct scriptural references from each candidate (i.e. named chapters/verses or quotes in quotation marks, not general references to "Word" etc.):
Benjamin T. Ball: 1 (0.2%)
Joel D. Bierman: 1 (0.2%)
Brady L. Finnern: 26 (4.2%)
Matthew C. Harrison: 10 (1.6%) (Harrison's manner of quoting makes counting difficult [which is obviously nothing against him], so different people might count differently)
Peter K. Lange: 0 (0.0%)

Number of references to the Lutheran Confessions ("Book of Concord", "Augsburg Confession", and so on, including not just references to specific passages this time):
Benjamin T. Ball: 3 (0.5%)
Joel D. Bierman: 1 (0.2%)
Brady L. Finnern: 3 (0.5%)
Matthew C. Harrison: 10 (1.6%) (counting also difficult)
Peter K. Lange: 5 (0.9%)

Any errors are my own.