In a speech delivered today from St. Anselm’s College in New Hampshire, John Edwards laid into Hillary Clinton and claimed the moral high ground–literally. By refusing to decline corporate contributions like he has, Edwards said that Clinton as president would perpetuate the same culture of corruption that Democrats had been claiming was the special province…

John McCain just announced an endorsement from a prominent Michican pro-life activist who’d been affiliated with Sam Brownback’s campaign. It’s not enough to boost his God-o-Meter rating–and even with Michigan’s super-early January 15 primary, it’s not clear that winning the state will matter much–but if it augurs more such endorsements God-o-Meter promises to reconsider. From…

A recent column in The Las Vegas Review-Journal notes that Hillary Clinton recieved a rousing reception at a little-noticed visit to a black megachurch in West Las Vegas: After waking between 2,000-thread-count sheets at the Four Seasons, Clinton attended services at Victory Missionary Baptist Church in West Las Vegas. Dr. Robert Fowler, the pastor and…

Is it just God-o-Meter that thinks Hillary and Obama are trying to out-church each other in South Carolina, with Clinton particularly nervous about Obama’s aggressive outreach in black churches? Just as the Obama camp is staging its controversial “gospel tour,” the Christian Broadcasting Network’s David Brody happens to swing by Clinton’s South Carolina headquarters and…

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