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John McCain today announced a new coalition of Catholic supporters headed by some big names, including Kansas Senator/former presidential candidate Sam Brownback and former Kansas Governor Frank Keating. From today’s press release: ….Former Governor Frank Keating (R-OK), also National Co-Chair of Catholics for McCain said, “John McCain can uniquely appeal to Catholics with his strong,…

God-o-Meter just stumbled on this story from last week about Fred Thompson overstating his conservative Christian support by inflating the heft of a group called the Wesleyan Center for Strategic Studies (whose web site now appears to be down). God-o-Meter had raised questions about the group earlier this month, after the Thompson campaign emailed an…

Back in the 1990s, the Christian Coalition was known as an “invisible army” for its ability to go undetected by the news media until delivering dramatic GOP victories on Election Day, including 1994’s Republican Revolution. The Dallas Morning News’ Wayne Slater says a similarly undetectable but potent force is behind Mike Huckabee’s rise: Mike Huckabee’s…

The Associated Press reports that two black South Carolina ministers whom Barack Obama said had endorsed him say they never agreed to do so: Two black South Carolina ministers listed by Barack Obama’s campaign as endorsing his White House bid say they did no such thing, and at least two others affirmed their support only…

It’s one thing for lefty atheists to ring alarm bells about Mike Huckabee’s use of religion in his presidential campaign. It’s quite another for a conservative evangelical former member of the Bush administration to do so. Peter Wehner, a longtime Bush aide and fellow at The Ethics and Public Policy Center–whose mission, “to clarify and…

Mike Huckabee’s Christmas ad is the gift that keeps on giving. The first holiday spot of the season, it hoisted him above the political fray, into the warm and cuddly candidate-I-most-want-to-have-eggnog-with zone. When the commentariat called it a ploy to solidify evangelical support, particularly with its “What really matters is… the birth of Christ ”…

It finally happened. Mike Huckabee, who scored God-o-Meter’s first and only 10 rating of the 2008 race and had the audacity to stay there for three full weeks, has been knocked down to a 9. And it came at the hands of some fellow Baptists. Bob Novak reports in The Washington Post that the ranks…

Mike Huckabee started a trend. Barack Obama’s new Christmas ad actually mentions Christmas, unlike Hillary Clinton’s “Happy Holidays” spot. But Huckabee’s mentioning the birth of Christ in his ad has raised the bar for the kind of outright religiosity God-o-Meter has come to expect in holiday spots, especially from a candidate who has tried to…

Huckabee’s mentions the birth of Jesus. Giuliani’s mentions Christmas. But Hillary’s new holiday ad just says “Happy Holidays.” The war on Christmas crowd won’t like like it, but God-o-Meter thinks she’s already lost those voters. Still, does the Clinton camp think the generic-sounding “Happy Holidays” will help its campaign to humanize its candidate?

Why would Hillary Clinton’s former Sunday school teacher publicly ask her if she’s a Christian and then act relieved when the Senator answered in the affirmative? That’s what God-o-Meter wondered as it read about such an exchange on ABC News’ Political Radar: Sen. Hillary Clinton got a surprise from her past at a rally in…
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