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Almost since it began, Barack Obama’s campaign has had to fight a hostile rumor that the candidate is actually a Muslim–with the inference being that he might somehow be sympathetic to anti-American militants in the Middle East and South Asia. E-mails containing various versions of the charge have bounced all over cyberspace, to the point that…

Beyond the back-and-forth in recent days between Barack Obama and John McCain on their differing approaches to energy policy, the Illinois senator got a couple of pluses on the faith-front. Politico.com revealed that Stephen Mansfield, a conservative Republican and evangelical Protestant, has written “The Faith of Barack Obama,” due in bookstores in August from Thomas…

The latest poll by the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute has Barack Obama leading by 12 points in Pennsylvania, the state where his one-time rival, Hillary Clinton, pretty much handed him his hat in the Democratic primary two months ago. Of course, there will be polls and polls in all the swing states in the 20…

A great, quadrennial subject that political reporters like to chew over is the question, does a distinctly “Catholic vote” still exist in the United States? That’s to say, given that Catholics represent the single-largest religious group in the nation–about 24 percent of the population–can either party sway them as a voting bloc, or near-bloc? Let’s put aside…
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