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The Associated Press reports on the strenuous Catholic outreach efforts of the Clinton and Obama campaigns in Pennsylvania. Catholics make up 30-percent of the population there and may be the biggest factor in determining whether Clinton wins big and survives to fight another day or whether Obama narrows her commanding lead among white religious voters…

Last week, God-o-Meter cited Gallup’s daily tracking poll as evidence that the Jeremiah Wright controversy was a drag on Barack Obama’s poll numbers. But a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll finds that the damage is not lasting, with Obama improving slightly among white voters in recent weeks: The racially charged debate over Barack Obama’s…

The Chronicle of Philantrophy reports that the Obamas gave $240,000 to charity last year. The Chronicle doesn’t say how much of their salary that represents, but reports that the couple gave 5-percent or more in 2005 and 2006: The Obamas gave $60,307 to charitable organizations in 2006, about 6 percent of their $991,296 in total…

And not just one or two. How long can “security concerns” be blamed for the cancellations? If Obama wins the nomination, will Wright forego public speaking till Election Day? Inauguration Day? Longer than that? From the Associated Press: The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, presidential candidate Barack Obama’s controversial former pastor, canceled plans Wednesday to receive an…

It took nearly two weeks and an uproar over her misstatements about a 1996 trip to Bosnia, but Hillary Clinton finally weighed in on the Obama/Wright controversy yesterday, in a long interview with the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, in a wide-ranging interview today with Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reporters and editors, said she would have…

Fresh evidence of Hillary Clinton’s huge lead among white religious voters over Barack Obama from the Mother of all Public Opinion Polls, Gallup: While the candidates run about evenly among Jewish Democrats, Clinton does better among Catholic Democratic voters, leading Obama by nearly 20 percentage points, 56% to 37%, in the March data among this…

In the day after endorsing Barack Obama, conservative Catholic legal scholar Doug Kmiec says he received several hundred email responses, with four in five of them applauding his decision. Four of those responses provide insight into the betrayal felt by some of Kmiec’s fellow conservatives but also into Obama’s uncanny appeal to many on the…

From Faith in Public Life’s press release: Senator Clinton Accepts Invitation to Bipartisan Presidential Compassion Forum Religious leaders from across the ideological spectrum are pleased to announce today that Senator Clinton has confirmed that she will participate in an unprecedented bipartisan presidential candidate forum at Messiah College near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on the evening of Sunday,…

God-o-Meter called legal scholar Douglas Kmiec, former counsel to Presidents Reagan and George H.W. Bush, conservative Catholic, and, until recently, an advisor to Mitt Romney, to discuss his endorsement of Barack Obama. Here’s the exchange: In endorsing Obama, you said he’d signaled that he’s open to different points of view on social issues like abortion.…

Reader Paul Shiras writes: When the “Chosen” Right-wing Republicans controlled the Senate, House and the White House, they did nothing! Don’t expect that McCain, who is no different on the religious issues than Obama or Clinton, will be a Savior. Face it, the Moral agenda of Focus on the Family has lost in the Political…
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