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John McCain rarely schedules meetings with high profile religious leaders, in stark contrast to George W. Bush–and Barack Obama. But after whacking Obama this afternoon for campaigning among foreigners in Berlin, McCain is trumpeting his one-on-one meeting tomorrow with a superstar religious leader from the international scene: the Dalai Lama. Irony of ironies, the powwow…

The Matthew 25 Network, a new faith-based political action committee started by John Kerry’s 2004 faith outreach director, is preparing to launch its second pro-Barack Obama radio ad this week, the group’s founder and director said on a conference call with reporters today. Matthew 25 will be spending $500,000 to broadcast the ad on Christian…

James Dobson’s 180-degree turnabout on John McCain has God-o-Meter thinking: has the candidate who’s famously inept on religious outreach seen the light and picked up the phone to call Colorado Springs? Dobson went a lot further than he needed to in his Obama-bashing broadcast yesterday. He could have bashed Obama and left it at that.…

Politico says the position has been created but not filled. It also reports the hiring as completely routine for presidential nominees: The creation of the position comes as Obama builds out a more traditional, constituency-based campaign structure than he had in the primary. But God-o-Meter can’t recall previous examples of presidential campaigns hiring Muslim outreach…
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