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God-o-Meter just hung up from a conference call with the Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius (pictured) and senior Obama advisor Anita Dunn laying out the nightly themes for the Democratic National Convention in Denver this month. It was suprised to hear not a peep about faith themes, particularly given that convention cochair Sebelius is reportedly in…

TIME magazine has just posted short essays from Barack Obama and John McCain about faith in advance of their meeting next weekend with Saddleback Church leader and Purpose-Driven Life author Rick Warren. In keeping with his broader campaign strategy, McCain’s emphasizes his biography as a POW, highlighting the role that faith played during those excruciating…

As Spiritual Politics’ Mark Silk puts it: Today’s NYT article on abortion and the Catholic vote by John Broder is pretty inadequate. The problem is that Broder treats Catholics like single-issue voters, a trap that the news media at large–including God-o-Meter, on occasion–fall into. Silk points out that Catholic voting patterns vary considerably by race…

The New York Times reports that one of the strongest indicators that Barack Obama and the Democratic National Committee is thinking hard about winning back Catholics is they’re consideration of pro-life Sen. Bob Casey, Jr for a speaking slot at this month’s convention. The Pennsylvania senator’s father, then-Keystone State Gov. Bob Casey, was famously denied…
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