Reprinted from Wall Street Journal Online. While Barack Obama was trying to vanquish Hillary Clinton, John McCain has been focused on a challenging target of his own: religious conservative voters. He’s always had a mixed relationship with evangelicals, heretofore a key part of the Republican base. Apparently his decision in 2000 to call Christian leaders…

Two posts (from wsj.com, where my post was originally printed) that typify the coming debate in the evangelical community: My Dad is a Southern Baptist Minister and my mother is also highly conservative. They are dedicated and excited Obama supporters. You don’t get much more evangelical than they are and you won’t find people who…

Reprinted from the Wall Street Journal Online If Bill Clinton was the first white to be a black president, could Barack Obama be the first non-evangelical to be an evangelical president? Huh? — you might be grunting. If Sen. Obama can’t even win moderate white Catholics –- and he lost them again yesterday in Indiana…

Based on Indiana and North Carolina, we can now further clarify Sen. Obama’s weakness. He doesn’t have a big problem with whites. He has a problem with older whites. Consider this: in North Carolina, Sen. Obama beat Sen. Clinton among 17- to 29-year-old whites 57%-41%. Among those 30 to 44 years old, Sen. Clinton was…

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