Bill Clinton may have been the nation’s first black president–and a Baptist, to boot–but his wife ain’t attempting anything like this to reach churchgoing African Americans. God-o-Meter has just learned Barack Obama’s campaign is staging a three-day tour gospel music tour to cap its “40 Days of Faith and Family” drive in South Carolina. The…

God-o-Meter–like so much of the news media–was impressed with Barack Obama’s appearance last Sunday at a Greenville, SC megachurch as part of his campaign’s “40 Days of Faith and Family” tour of the state. After all, the conservative evangelical congregation’s previous political guests were Sen. Lindsey Graham, Gov. Mark Sanford, and Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer,…

God-o-Meter may have joshed Barack Obama for laying his faith-friendly message on so thick–his campaign is now on a “40 Days of Faith and Family” tour of South Carolina–but make no mistake: Obama is courting religious voters more strenuously than any Democratic White House hopeful in recent memory (with only Hillary Clinton touching him in…

As if God-o-Meter needed more evidence that Iowa—rural, culturally conservative, and home to the first-in-the-nation presidential caucuses—has become a laboratory for new religious organizing techniques by Democratic presidential candidates, it learns that the Obama campaign is in the middle of a 10-day “faith tour” of Iowa. CBN’s David Brody stopped in at one such event,…

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