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The Rev. Jeremiah Wright controversy has blown over, and Obama survived more or less unscathed, right? Not exactly. As God-o-Meter has said, the worst is yet to come for Obama, as Republicans and their allies begin turning video of Wright’s most incendiary sermons into campaign commercials for the general election. That process has now officially…

For all his religious outreach, Barack Obama’s base in today’s Pennsylvania’s primary today was secular. Yes, he won voters who attend church more than weekly–though at 50-percent to 49-percent it wasn’t exactly a clear cut victory–but those voters constituted just 9-percent of the electorate. Weekly and monthly churchgoers, by contrast, accounted for 36-percent of the…

It wasn’t a landslide, but it was decisive. Jews, who comprised 7-percent of today’s Democratic Pennsylvania electorate, broke for Hillary Clinton 55-percent to 45-percent, according to exit polls. Barack Obama and Clinton staged a surprisingly spirited fight for the Jewish vote these last few weeks. Their numbers aren’t huge, but Jews have long been a…

The Obama campaign just fired off an email memo whose title begins: “Obama Overperforms Among Catholics…” Technically, that’s right. But Hillary Clinton nonetheless trampled Obama among Catholics today in Pennsylvania, where they accounted for roughly a third of the Democratic vote. According to exit polls, Clinton won Pennsylvania Catholics 69-percent to 31-percent. That’s even worse…

Under the headline Obama Catholic Outreach Failing, God-o-Meter asserted yesterday that, for all his impressive efforts, Barack Obama had nothing to show for his Catholic outreach, given that a Sunday poll put Clinton ahead of Obama among Pennsylvania Catholics by 63-percent to 30-percent. But a Barack Obama supporter contacted God-o-Meter to argue that there was…

South Carolina pastor Ronald Byrd should check this out: Campaigning in Pennsylvania this weekend, Barack Obama quietly attended service at St. Mark’s United Church of Christ in small town Lebanon, outside Harrisburg. The Lebanon Daily News carried the story: Obama wanted his visit to be as private as possible, so the church staff was asked…

From The Washington Times: A coalition of American Muslim groups is demanding that Sen. John McCain stop using the adjective “Islamic” to describe terrorists and extremist enemies of the United States. Muneer Fareed, who heads the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), told The Washington Times that his group is beginning a campaign to persuade…

He’ll be on PBS’s Bill Moyers Journal this Friday, followed by a handful of other public appearances over the following few days, according to the United Church of Christ’s web site: In what will be his first interview since snippets of his preaching became a central issue in the U.S. presidential campaign, the Rev. Jeremiah…

It must be said up top that the South Carolina Democratic primary is long since over and that Barack Obama won it handily, so God-o-Meter won’t extrapolate too much about this story’s implications for Obama’s campaign going forward, including the fact that North Carolina hosts the next primary after today’s in Pennsylvania. Still, this stuff…

Did anyone else rewind TiVo multiple times yesterday when John McCain discussed his endorsement from John Hagee yesterday on ABC’s This Week? McCain said both that he regretted seeking the endorsement from the Texas-based televangelist, who has a history of making anti-Catholic remarks, and that he was happy to have it. How can he have…
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