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Barack Obama spoke this morning at the Harvest Cathedral, an evangelical church in Macon, Georgia. You can read a spirited local debate about his appearance here. In God-o-Meter’s humble opinion, it’s these kinds of appearances, matched with Hillary Clinton’s reluctance to appear as frequently before evangelical audiences or to talk to the evangelical press, that…

As far as religiosity goes, Barack Obama’s South Carolina victory tonight cut across all lines; he won both among weekly churchgoers and those who seldom or never attend church. But Obama fared best among those who attend church most often. Looking at the exit polls, Obama won 64-percent of South Carolina Democrats who attend church…

God-o-Meter wrestled over whether to file this post under Mitt Romney or Mike Huckabee and settled on the latter for two reasons. First, it couldn’t pass up the rare opportunity to lower the rating of the sole candidate to score a theocratic “10” and stay there for weeks. Second, and more importantly, a stealth Romney…

John McCain, erstwhile scourge of evangelical Christians, now thinks evangelicals and conservative Republicans are synonymous–and that he’s back in their good graces. Check out McCain’s response to Brian Williams’s question about his low standing in the GOP base during last night’s Florida debate: Williams: Senator McCain, next question to you. In an interview with our…

Outspokenly against the war and out of step with his party on much else–his support for tying American currency to the gold standard or for abolishing the Department of Education, for example–Ron Paul is typically portrayed as the libertarian bomb thrower in the Republican presidential field. Culturally speaking, though, Paul is in lockstep with the…

Here it is, a few days later than promised: God-o-Meter’s sit-down with Ron Paul. GOM has to run, but will have more to say on this later. Suffice it to say that Paul’s rating will go up. One quick nugget: Now, with the new policy that we have preemptive war, we’ve thrown out the Christian…

A new Beliefnet online poll finds that Mike Huckabee is the leading Republican contender among evangelicals, but not by much. View God-o-Meter’s story on the poll here and complete results here. Sure, Huck got 28-percent of evangelical support, but McCain wasn’t too far behind, with 21-percent support, even after the battering he’s receieved from Christian…

For a few days there, it seemed to God-o-Meter that Mitt Romney, after winning the Michigan primary on his economic message and placing fourth in South Carolina because of anemic evangelical support, was deemphasizing religious conservative outreach. Over at Townhall, though, GOM sees that Romney has sealed up endorsements from Florida’s most important Christian Right…

Guess who John McCain’s new web ad is meant to appeal to–fiscal conservatives, defense conservatives, or religious conservatives? God-o-Meter will give you a hint: it features Mike Huckabee, Sam Brownback, and Tom Coburn all saying nice things about him.

Taking advantage of Fred Thompson’s exit from the race and Mike Huckabee’s continuing struggle to get traction outside his evangelical base, the folks over at Evangelicals for Mitt are asking born again Fred Heads and Huck-a-Fans to reconsider the former governor from Massachusetts: Governor Romney balanced a budget, managed a crisis in one of he…
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