Watch it Here:According to TIME, the McCain campaign has strongly rejected the ad in a statement: John McCain strongly rejects this ad and the type of politics that degrades our civics. From the beginning of this process McCain has expressed his intent to run a respectful campaign based on the issues, and we have repeatedly…

The Rev. Jeremiah Wright controversy has blown over, and Obama survived more or less unscathed, right? Not exactly. As God-o-Meter has said, the worst is yet to come for Obama, as Republicans and their allies begin turning video of Wright’s most incendiary sermons into campaign commercials for the general election. That process has now officially…

For all his religious outreach, Barack Obama’s base in today’s Pennsylvania’s primary today was secular. Yes, he won voters who attend church more than weekly–though at 50-percent to 49-percent it wasn’t exactly a clear cut victory–but those voters constituted just 9-percent of the electorate. Weekly and monthly churchgoers, by contrast, accounted for 36-percent of the…

It wasn’t a landslide, but it was decisive. Jews, who comprised 7-percent of today’s Democratic Pennsylvania electorate, broke for Hillary Clinton 55-percent to 45-percent, according to exit polls. Barack Obama and Clinton staged a surprisingly spirited fight for the Jewish vote these last few weeks. Their numbers aren’t huge, but Jews have long been a…

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