God-o-Meter wondered about the birth of Mike Huckabee’s new ad celebrating the birth of Jesus, so it asked Huckabee senior advisor Charmaine Yoest. Her response: “The ad was born when [campaign manager] Chip Saltsman and the Governor looked at the calendar and asked the question: “How do you campaign just before Christmas?” This ad is…

Locked in a potentially fateful battle for evangelical Iowa caucus goers with Mike Huckabee, God-o-Meter has learned that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has enlisted prominent evangelical publicist Mark DeMoss to tape ads on his behalf for broadcast on Iowa Christian radio. DeMoss tells God-o-Meter that he taped roughly a half-dozen such spots after landing…

Mike Huckabee’s new TV ad shows him in front of a Christmas tree and what the Drudge Report calls a “floating cross”–the clear wooden crosspiece of a window that God-o-Meter has a hard time believing got in there by accident. After complaining about all the annoying political ads clogging the airwaves, Huckabee, looking more like…

In the face of false rumors that he’s Muslim—two volunteers for Hillary Clinton were recently forced to step down for forwarding emails connecting him to the threat of Islamic jihad—Barack Obama has gone further than his Democrat rivals in trying to forge a Christian identity. The Associated Press reports that Obama continued his Christianizing campaign…

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