Politico’s Mike Allen reports that the Republican National Committee will release a strategy memo today on “DEMOCRATIC DISUNITY,” arguing that Obama has vulnerabilities in spades: Obama is not wearing well as a candidate and has lost momentum since his high point in February. The more people learn about him and his views, the less they…

A pretty prominent religious conservative has started an online petition for the presidential candidates (read: John McCain) to select “a true Christian VP”–someone who has been “spiritually transformed by Jesus Christ (i.e. regenerated or born again).” The effort is being led by Gary Cass, who led Christian Right legend D. James Kennedy’s Center for Reclaiming…

Now that Barack Obama has publicly parted ways with Trinity United Church of Christ, are all those sermon controversies behind him? Maybe not. Unlike John McCain’s recent split from John Hagee and Rod Parsley, Obama and the two religious figures who ignited national firestorms from Trinity’s pulpit–Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Father Michael Pfleger–have longstanding friendships…

For all John McCain’s bungling of religious outreach, particularly with his own party’s social conservative base, no one can accuse him of taking the Jewish vote for granted. He embraces every opportunity to reiterate his firm support for Israel, his hawkish positions on Iran and Hamas, and the reasons he feels Barack Obama is soft…

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