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Obama: Small Towners as Source of Values
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dgilgoff
Barack Obama’s unscripted comments about small town Americans clinging to God, guns, and anti-immigrant sentiment didn’t do him any favors in Pennsylvania’s primary, so he’s heaping praise on small town values in advance of Indiana’s Tuesday primary. Here’s The Truth newspaper said about Obama’s appearance yesterday in a South Bend barn: “It is my belief…
Update On Clinton’s Faith Outreach
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dgilgoff
Earlier this week, God-o-Meter noted that one of the Democrats’ top faith strategists, Eric Sapp of Common Good strategies, had helped the Clinton campaign arrange a Chelsea Clinton church appearance in North Carolina, prompting GOM to wonder aloud if Common Good–the Democrats’ primary faith consulting shop–had officially signed up with Clinton. It turns out that…
Behind The Christian Right’s Kind Words for McCain
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dgilgoff
Last night, God-o-Meter noted that the Family Research Council Action, the powerful DC-based evangelical advocacy group, had some surprisingly kind words for John McCain, given its vocal disappointment about McCain’s flaccid Christian Right outreach. So God-o-Meter checked in today with Connie Mackey, FRC’s senior vice president, about whether McCain has stepped up his effort to…
Clinton, Dobson, and The National Day of Prayer
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dgilgoff
When Focus on the Family founder James Dobson came to Capitol Hill last spring for the National Day of Prayer, a prominent Democratic senator made a point of approaching the Republican kingmaker to say hi: Hillary Rodham Clinton. Dobson was none too pleased, but the story made the rounds in Washington’s evangelical circles. Today, Clinton…
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