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The media is covering the Huckabee-Thompson duel for religious conservatives in South Carolina, God-o-Meter thinks it has glossed over an important distinction in the two candidates’ approaches on the stump. Huckabee comes across as a populist “compassionate conservative,” while Thompson comes across as what Michael Gerson calls in today’s Washington Post a “callous conservative.” Gerson…

In the final hours before voting begins here in tomorrow’s GOP primary, The Brody File notes that John McCain is faring pretty decently among South Carolina evangelicals: The latest poll shows Huckabee leading McCain 33% to 20% among the Evangelical vote. That’s a sizeable margin but not as big as it could be. In 2000,…

As his campaign ambles along the back roads of upstate South Carolina, it’s little surprise that many of the voters turning out to hear Fred Thompson are evangelical Christians. In these parts, Baptist churches are more common than any chain restaurant. As Thompson spoke at Yoder’s Dutch Kitchen in Abbeville the other day, the marquee…

No, this is not a dusted-off entry from Sam Brownback’s presidential campaigning days. It’s an invitation from God-o-Meter to take Beliefnet’s faith and politics ’08 poll. This is your chance to weigh in on the most faith-based presidential campaign in memory. We should have results next week.

God-o-Meter caught up with Fred Thompson and his wife Jeri at various South Carolina events this week and has cobbled together this Q&A from a few separate exchanges. God-o-Meter has lots more to say about the Thompsons’ answers–and will–but it has to head off to interview Ron Paul at Bob Jones University. God-o-Meter: Do you…

Ron Paul, the candidate who recently quoted Sinclair Lewis’s line that “when fascism comes to this country it will be wrapped in the flag, carrying a cross,” is speaking at the fundamentalist Bob Jones University this evening. God-o-Meter will try to make it. Of course, university chancellor Bob Jones III has already endorsed Mitt Romney.

John McCain’s Christian Right offensive yields another endorsement, from Tom Coburn, poster child for old school Christian conservatism in the U.S. Senate. Another reminder that the fight for Palmetto State evangelicals isn’t limited to Mike Huckabee and Fred Thompson.

Here in South Carolina, where God-o-Meter will be operating for the next several days, the conventional wisdom is that Fred Thompson and Mitt Romney are in a two-man duel for GOP’s evangelicals in this Saturday’s primary. That’s what makes tonight’s briefing from Family Research Council Action, legislative arm of the beltway’s top evangelical lobbying group,…

This isn’t the first time Barack Obama’s church family has gotten him in hot water. Remember when his campaign caught flack from the gay community for staging a Gospel music tour of South Carolina that featured “ex-gay” singer Donnie McClurkin? Now it’s Obama’s longtime minister, Jeremiah Wright, who’s in the spotlight. Yesterday, Washington Post columnist…

Tonight’s exit polls out of Michigan, where Mitt Romney has been projected to be the easy victor, show that he won evangelical voters in a bare plurality, his first victory among that group in this cycle. A Michigan native son, Romney took 32-percent of evangelical votes, compared to 31-percent for Mike Huckabee and 22-percent for…
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