Recent polls show that Barack Obama suffered little or no lasting damage from the Rev. Wright controversy. Bloomberg says on the ground interviews with white Indiana voters tell a different story: Interviews with dozens of Democrats in this overwhelmingly white region — where voters will go to the polls in the May 6 primary —…

First Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s public appearances were cancelled. Now his church’s web site has been cleaned up. Kind of Soviet, right? Given Wright’s love of the spotlight, God-o-Meter has a hard time believing that this attempted clean up is a result of him and his church acting on their own. How big a role, if…

In a sign of the intensifying battle for Catholic voters between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, particularly ahead of next month’s Pennsylvania primary, both candidates have brought Catholic outreach coordinators aboard their campaigns, God-o-Meter has learned. Just last week, Obama’s campaign hired Mark Linton, a legislative aide working on poverty and other social policy issues…

There’s been some squawking from the chattering classes about the challenge this presents Obama, but God-o-Meter is shocked that so few Americans hold the mistaken belief that Obama is Muslim, given the virulence of the false rumor campaign against him. Consider that other recent polls have shown that: 28-percent of Americans think “Saddam Hussein was…

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