On Sunday, Joe Biden raised a few eyebrows–and the hackles of the conservative pro-life establishment–by saying that his Catholic faith dictates his belief that life begins at conception during an interview on Meet the Press. The New York Times treated the interview as a “gap” story, about the conflict between Biden’s private religious views and…

Looking for a clip of Barack Obama’s answer on abortion during his interview yesterday on This Week with George Stephanopoulos, God-o-Meter just entered the terms “Obama This Week” on YouTube’s homepage. God-o-Meter found just a couple of clips of Obama discussing abortion. It found 22 clips, meanwhile of Obama’s faith gaffe on this week, in…

Responding in comments about God-o-Meter’s recent post on the same high proportion of weekly white church attenders supporting John McCain as backed George W. Bush in 2004, Spirirtual Politics’ Mark Silk links to his own post on the Gallup God gap poll: But there’s a shift in the swing group of those who say they…

Steve Waldman notes that after his year-and-a-half long campaign to target evangelicals and other cultural conservatives, Barack Obama is jeopardizing the outreach with a less-than-stellar appearance at Saddleback last month his new ads hitting McCain over his pro-life views.Obama’s interview yesterday on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos focused on the abortion issue only for…

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