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How do you like this for timing: On Friday, a new Gallup poll shows that Hillary Clinton has a substantial lead among highly religious white Democrats. On Saturday, the senator from New York sits down with David Brody for 25 minutes for her debut interview on the Christian Broadcasting Network. Brody asks about Clinton’s faith,…

This is big news for Hillary Clinton: a new Gallup poll shows her with a major advantage among religious white Democrats over Barack Obama. God-o-Meter had recently reported that it was Obama’s religious outreach that appeared to be paying higher dividends, in light of his landslide victories over Clinton among frequent churchgoers in South Carolina…

Last month, God-o-Meter wrote about Barack Obama becoming the Democrats’ Mike Huckabee–a secular preacher. Columnist Kathleen Parker takes the case even further today, seeing in the Obama juggernaut a messiah for today’s secular youth: Reports of women weeping and swooning — even of an audience applauding when The One cleared his proboscis (blew his nose…

As Barack Obama racks up primary victories, Hillary Clinton is making a strenuous case that super delegates, whose support could potentially determine the Democratic nominee, should act according to their consciences and not according to the primary results. The Clinton campaign has even launched a new web site to make that argument. Now, camp Clinton…

Hillary Clinton’s Faith, Family and Values team sent out this clip of the senator’s response to the final question of last night’s debate, Describe a moment in life when you were tested most.Toward the end of her response, Clinton characterizes her political career as more or less a religious calling: I’d resolved at a very…

Omid Safi, a professor of Islamic Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, argues that the six-million-strong American Muslim community is likely to break for Barack Obama, in a piece brought to God-o-Meter’s attention by the Dallas Morning News Religion Blog. Here’s his rationale (notice the reference to McCain’s Beliefnet interview): As…

God-o-Meter is less sure than The San Francisco Chronicle that Janet Huckabee’s stay at Las Vegas’s Hooters Casino Hotel will scare of her husband’s evangelical supporters–this is a couple that upgraded to a “covenant marriage” a few years back–but it’s enough to knock Huckabee down to 8, a rare dip for the Baptist minister. What…

Here’s David Brody’s take on how today’s New York Times story that insinuated John McCain had an affair (without producing any hard evidence) will affect the Arizona senator’s attempts to woo evangelicals: Obviously an article like this doesn’t help McCain among the conservatives he’s trying to win over, especially social conservatives. But let’s take a…

God-o-Meter just hung up with Shannon Royce, former executive director of the Arlington Group–a coalition of conservative Christian big wigs hell-bent on stopping gay marriage–and was surprised to learn that she had formally endorsed John McCain. Hardly a household name, Royce is nonetheless a very big deal in conservative Christian organizational circles, having served as…

It’s an indirect compliment, to be sure, but Southern Baptist Convention Public Policy chief Richard Land’s comments in today’s Tennesseean certainly seem to favor Obama: Of the two Democratic hopefuls, Land said that as a conservative Republican he’d rather see Clinton be nominated “because she’d be easier to beat.” “But as an American,” he added,…
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