God-o-Meter knows John McCain is redoubling efforts to repair relations with the Christian Right, but being called weak on values by former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum, an influential figure in the movement, isn’t going to help his cause. Here’s what Santorum said yesterday on Hugh Hewitt’s radio show, courtesy of Evangelicals for Mitt: on social…

Just because Mitt Romney is pulling his ads in South Carolina doesn’t mean he’s not banking his candidacy on serious evangelical support. For the time being, though, it’s not Southern evangelicals he needs. A senior Romney aide tells God-o-Meter that the campaign, desperately needing a win in next Tuesday’s Michigan primary, will be focusing the…

In a story about Mike Huckabee’s efforts to reach evangelicals who don’t consider themselves part of the Christian Right, Reuters reports that influential megachurch pastor and onetime Christian Coalition president-elect Joel Hunter is backing Mike Huckabee: The new religious right is epitomized by people like influential Florida pastor Joel Hunter, who was anointed to lead…

Real Clear Politics’ John Ellis makes a convincing case that despite his third-place finish in New Hampshire, Mike Huckabee is poised for victories in South Carolina and other early primary states: With McCain now anointed by clueless Washington scribes as the putative front-runner, the Arizona Senator must compete in South Carolina, because he will be…

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