Faith and morality played major roles Nov. 2 as American voters re-elected President Bush, expanded the Republican Party's advantage in Congress and approved amendments to protect marriage in 11 states. The close and contentious battle for the White House came to an end when Democrat nominee John Kerry conceded the election in a phone call to Bush yesterday. Ohio Secretary of State, Ken Blackwell, estimated that 25 percent of Bush's raw vote in Ohio came from white evangelicals. "The faith factor was the difference in this election," said Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission. Not only did more than three-fourths of evangelicals vote for Bush, but "a whole lot more of them voted" than in 2000, Land said. Even The New York Times acknowledged that the faith factor was determinative. "Because people of faith voted their values, their beliefs and their convictions, we have for the first time since 1988 a president who won a majority of the