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The more it looks at last night’s entrance polls, the more God-o-Meter is stunned by the extraordinary degree to which Mike Huckabee’s Iowa win was due to evangelical support. Check out these lines from The New York Times: A poll of people entering the Republican caucuses on Thursday showed more than 8 in 10 of…

Fellow Beliefnetter David Kuo writes today that Mike Huckabee is no Pat Robertson–the former Christian Broadcasting Network chief who finished strong in 1988’s Iowa caucuses but went on to go nowhere–because Huckabee’s base of support is much broader: Pat Robertson didn’t have mass appeal. He scared people. He didn’t seem all there. No one is…

In light of Mike Huckabee’s Iowa win on the backs of evangelical caucus goers, God-o-Meter thought it would point out the big Christian Right endorsements of his Republican rivals, as a way of showing the rift between the evangelical elite and the rank and file: Mitt Romney’s endorsements: Supreme Court lawyer Jay Sekulow Christian PR…

Check out the entrance polls over at CNN, which show that Mike Huckabee won 46-percent of caucus goers who identified as evangelical or born again Christians, compared to just 19-percent for Mitt Romney. With six in ten GOP caucus goers IDing as evangelical/born again–many more than pollsters expected–it’s pretty clear that the evangelical grassroots are…

Following up on yesterday’s report that Iowa-based pastors supporting Mike Huckabee are receiving anonymous threats about losing their tax exempt status, the Associated Press gets a few of the pastors on record. It also has this response from the Huckabee camp: Jim Harris, a Huckabee spokesman in Little Rock, Ark., said the campaign was aware…

After going further than any Democratic presidential candidate in memory to establish himself as a fervent Christian believer–he visits churches often and has staged “faith tours” in Iowa and South Carolina–Obama is still apparently susceptible to email campaigns that have tried to brand him a Muslim and an atheist. From a Des Moines pool report…

A coalition of Christian Right leaders, mostly representing state-level groups, has issued a new 10-point argument against Mitt Romney. The memo’s mostly Massachusetts-based signers argue that Romney’s gubernatorial record casts doubt on his pro-life transformation and his stated opposition to same-sex marriage and gay rights. In other words, it calls him a fraud. Many of…

National Right to Life general counsel James Bopp, Jr. has a piece attacking Huckabee over at National Review Online that stands out to God-o-Meter for two reasons. For Bopp, Mitt Romney’s top outside advsor on “life issues,” whacking Huckabee is nothing new. But God-o-Meter can’t remember the last time a Romney advisor publicly called Huckabee…

On last Sunday’s Meet the Press, Mike Huckabee told Tim Russert that for voters wondering how his religion would shape his presidency, “the best way is to look at it is how I served as governor.” This week The Los Angeles Times followed his advice. Among other things, the paper found that Huckabee held up…

TIME Magazine’s Michael Scherer reports that pro-Huckabee pastors in Iowa have received anonymous letters warning that IRS rules against church-based politicking will land them “in the slammer.” Read one of the purported letters here. It’s as yet unclear who’s behind the letters.
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