Here in South Carolina, where God-o-Meter will be operating for the next several days, the conventional wisdom is that Fred Thompson and Mitt Romney are in a two-man duel for GOP’s evangelicals in this Saturday’s primary. That’s what makes tonight’s briefing from Family Research Council Action, legislative arm of the beltway’s top evangelical lobbying group,…

This isn’t the first time Barack Obama’s church family has gotten him in hot water. Remember when his campaign caught flack from the gay community for staging a Gospel music tour of South Carolina that featured “ex-gay” singer Donnie McClurkin? Now it’s Obama’s longtime minister, Jeremiah Wright, who’s in the spotlight. Yesterday, Washington Post columnist…

Tonight’s exit polls out of Michigan, where Mitt Romney has been projected to be the easy victor, show that he won evangelical voters in a bare plurality, his first victory among that group in this cycle. A Michigan native son, Romney took 32-percent of evangelical votes, compared to 31-percent for Mike Huckabee and 22-percent for…

The Obama campaign has been distributing serious Christian literature in South Carolina for months now, but it’s gone mostly unremarked upon in the news media. The Washington Post has a short item on the brochures tonight: The brochure being handed out in South Carolina shows a picture of the candidate with his hands together and…

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