Among the Christian RIght’s chief criticisms of John McCain has been his reluctance to point out differences between himself and Barack Obama on hot button social issues like abortion and gay marriage. A new McCain campaign briefing shows the Arizona may be shedding that reluctance. It enumerates 17 reported Obama flip flops, including some that…

The Dallas Morning News has the best update in weeks on the McCain camp’s stepped-up religious outreach effort, its scaled-back vision for the role of evangelicals in 2008 as compared to ’04, and the continuing evangelical critique of the whole operation. The story reports that McCain has finally hired someone to direct it’s religious outreach…

Or so says a headline in yesterday’s Washington Times. The evidence? Last week’s powwow of Christian Right activists in Denver. For a more nuanced–and skeptical–take on that meeting’s benefit to McCain, see God-o-Meter.

This morning’s Washington Post front pager on John McCain offers a chorus of conservative voices vowing war over changes they expect the presumptive Republican nominee to attempt to engineer in the GOP platform. The one conservative urging calm? The Family Research Council’s Ken Blackwell: Ken Blackwell, a senior fellow at the Family Research Council and…

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