You needn’t have strayed from traditional news sources in the past 24 hours to get the basics of Senator Obama’s Father’s Day speech. In brief, he talked about the responsibility of fatherhood itself and made pointed reference to the absence of fathers in many African-American homes. The IIlinois Senator, whose own father left Obama’s mother when Obama was…

As noted from time to time by the God-o-Meter, Senator McCain has not had an easy time of it winning support from conservative evangelical Protestants. So, it certainly can’t hurt him with that electoral segment that he can count on getting the vote of Macel Falwell “for sure.” That’s what she tells Newsweek’s Lisa Miller…

Today’s news includes widespread mention that the Obama campaign has put up a website to fight viral internet rumors that the campaign perceives as dangerous to its candidate. The site, at its debut, lists five it works assiduously to debunk–and no fewer than three touch on religion, ample evidence of how potent matters spiritual are…

Although it was way overshadowed by the news that Sen. Barack Obama’s top vice presidential search aide had quit, presumptive Republican nominee John McCain spent yesterday campaigning in Massachusetts, the state’s former governor, Mitt Romney, at his side. Romney, of course, is not just any high-profile McCain supporter. Ever since he endorsed McCain (last Valentine’s…

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