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The Obama campaign has been distributing serious Christian literature in South Carolina for months now, but it’s gone mostly unremarked upon in the news media. The Washington Post has a short item on the brochures tonight: The brochure being handed out in South Carolina shows a picture of the candidate with his hands together and…

Given all Mike Huckabee’s theotalk–he’s been a ten on God-o-Meter since the first of the year–you’d think GOM would be completely desensitized to it by now. But Huck keeps upping the ante. According to NBC News, he’s inserted new lines into his stump speech about wanting to amend the Constitution to ban gay marriage and…

Mitt Romney announced a big Michigan Christian Right endorsement today: Marlene Elwell. Not exactly a household name, Elwell was a key advisor to the 1990s-era Christian Coalition and helped engineer Pat Robertson’s strong finish in 1988’s Iowa presidential caucuses. More recently, Elwell directed the Americans of Faith coalition for John McCain’s presidential campaign. She left…

Before speaking to a gathering of Michigan pastors last night, Mike Huckabee spoke to a Spartanburg, South Carolina congregation in the morning. From the Associated Press: Republican Mike Huckabee spoke from the pulpit Sunday, not as a politician but as the preacher he used to be, delivering a sermon on how merely being good isn’t…

God-o-Meter’s new fellow Beliefnet blogger Reformed Chicks Blabbing has made a personal plea for GOM to raise Fred Thompson’s reading on the basis that he relies on sound Christian theology in envisioning government’s role in curing social ills. Here’s what Thompson said on Saturday in South Carolina, according to CBS News: A woman asked him…

Sure, his populist message could resonate in the Motor City. But The Politico’s Jonathan Martin reports that in heavily evangelical western Michigan, Mike Huckabee’s reprising a values ad from Iowa: Mike Huckabee cut a new, Michigan-oriented ad last week that focused on kitchen table issues important to the state’s middle class. It also includes what…

ABC News reports that Rudy Giuliani spoke to a Hispanic evangelical congregation this morning in Miami, apparently his first church visit of the race: Saying that “faith can transform lives,” Giuliani told parishioners that running for president of the United States “is a marathon, not a sprint. And in may ways it’s a test of…

It’s no surprise that Mike Huckabee was urging a group of Michigan pastors yesterday to mobilize their supporters for him like only a fellow pastor could, as reported by The Washington Post: “I don’t presume that you automatically support me because of a common faith,” Huckabee told a group of more than 100 conservative pastors.…

Travel with God-o-Meter way back to September 2007, when religious conservative activists, led by Focus on the Family’s James Dobson, threatened to bolt the GOP and back a third-party candidate in November in the event that Rudy Giuliani got the party’s nomination. Now that a religious conservative is leading the Republican pack, distraught economic conservatives…

A month ago today, the Drudge Report reported that the Democratic National Committee had ordered its operatives to hold their fire on Mike Huckabee, while letting loose on the rest of the Republican field, because facing Huck in November would be a Democratic nominee’s dream. Since then, according to the DNC’s press release archives, the…
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