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A day after denouncing John McCain, Focus on the Family’s James Dobson said today he’d be willing to vote for Mike Huckabee or Mitt Romney. From Focus on the Family Action’s daily CitizenLink email update: Around noon today, Dr. Dobson talked to national talk-show host Dennis Prager. While he made it clear he was not…

Here’s something you don’t see everyday: an analysis of which kinds of religious voters supported which candidates. Democratic candidates. Here’s religion and politics scholar John Green, of the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, courtesty of Christianity Today’s Liveblog: Sen. Obama has clearly done very well among black Protestants, and that’s changed the equation.…

Last night, Mike Huckabee opened his ebullient Super Tuesday speech in Little Rock with this line: Tonight, we are making sure America understands that sometimes one small smooth stone is even more effective than a whole lot of armor. The crowd went wild. But, as the Bible Belt Blogger wrote recently, most reporters were probably…

Do Mike Huckabee’s surprising Super Tuesday victories in the Deep South–where he took Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas and West Virginia–translate into a delegate boost that puts him within reach of the Republican nomination? Almost certainly not, though some of the next primary states in line–Virginia, North Carolina, and Texas, provide some Huck-friendly territory. But Huck’s…

Even as Super Tuesday saw John McCain continue to win more primary battles than his Republican rivals, there is mounting evidence that he’s losing the war with the evangelical base of his own party, raising questions about the Arizona senator’s ability to compete with the Democratic nominee in November. “The challenge for John McCain will…

God-o-Meter has noted that in southern states like Georgia and South Carolina, where Barack Obama won landslide victories, he fared best among frequent churchgoers. Among those voters, Obama won two-to-one over Hillary Clinton. But after Clinton was declared victorious in two culturally conservative states today–Tennessee and Oklahoma–God-o-Meter checked out the exit polls and saw that…

What happened in South Carolina among Democratic churchgoers happened again in Georgia today: they broke wildly for Barack Obama. With just two percent of precincts reporting, CNN has called the state for Obama. Among those attending church weekly or more often–45-percent of the Democratic electorate–Obama won nearly two-to-one over Clinton. Clinton did best among those…

Here’s the Christian Broadcasting Network’s David Brody on James Dobson’s McCain denouncement. He sees it as a probable tacit endorsement for Romney. As a former Focus on the Family newsman, Brody would be one to know. I guess my first question is, “Why come out with this statement now?” The skeptic in me wonders if…

God-o-Meter’s Beliefnet buddy David Kuo has this to say about James Dobson’s stated rationale for opposing John McCain, which was read today on air by Laura Ingraham: Damn. Is there a more succinct and stunning summation of the reason why evangelical voters are throwing off self-appointed evangelical mullahs like James Dobson? And why, according to…

Can you really blame them? From The Politico: …overwhelmingly Mormon Utah has taken a profound dislike to the Southern Baptist preacher best known for his nice-guy persona. The wellspring of Huckabee hate is a now-famous Dec. 16 New York Times Magazine interview in which the former Arkansas governor, in an “innocent voice,” is reported to…
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