In the infomercial Wednesday, Michelle Obama told how Barack read all of the Harry Potter books to his daughter. I wonder if they realized that they’d meandered into a culture war mine field. The Harry Potter books were extemely controversial in evangelical circles when they came out. Many attacked them for glamorizing or encouraging witchcraft.…

Responding to John McCain’s claim that Obama wants to redistribute the wealth and is therefore a socialist, Barack Obama said Thursday: “My Bible tells me there is nothing wrong with helping other people, that we want to treat others like we want to be treated. That I am my brother’s keeper, and I am my…

For all the talk about how McCain has no “ground game” and Obama is pushing hard for evangelicals, Sarah Pulliam at Christianity Today spots this interesting giblet from a recent poll: “A new Washington Post-ABC News poll report shows that 26 percent of evangelicals have been contacted by McCain’s campaign, compared with 15 percent who…

As Mark Silk and I have been carping on, a key trend appears to be that Obama is doing much better with evangelicals in the rust belt states than in the south and west. And this just in… In Indiana, according to a new Indianapolis Star poll, McCain is beating Obama among white evangelicals 57%-33%.…

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