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Steven Waldman

A friend who was doing phone-calling for Obama showed me their script. Interesting bit. Callers are supposed ask would-be voters not only if they’re going to vote but specifically where and when: “Research shows that we can increase voter turnout by asking someone to think about specifics and to visualize wehre/when they will vote!”

The liberal Catholic groups are often at odds with the Catholic Bishops theologically, and on abortion politics. But it turns out that this year some of the conservative Catholic groups are rebelling against the hierarchy over tactics. The Bishops had decided that only official church political literature should be allowed on church premises, not voter…

I just finished voting. My neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York is mostly Carribean-American and strongly Obama. A few observations. Very few signs. On most election days, all up and down Rogers Ave, you see signs for various candidates. This time, no. You wouldn’t even know there’s an election. (Life in a non-battleground state!) The lines…

Talk radio host Michael Savage on October 22: Do you actually believe he’d be going to Hawaii at this time with 10 days to go? You actually believe that? No, no, no — no, no, no, no, no. No. There’s some other reason that he’s leaving the mainland of the United States in the midst…

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Should he win, Obama will need to early on figure out how to get out of a political straight jacket of his own making: on abortion. His challenge will not be traversing the political parties but two Democratic constituencies who both worked hard for him and want very different things.. For the last few months,…

Gay Marriage California — California’s Propositiion 8 would amend the state’s constitution, declaring that marriage is just between a man and a woman. Florida — The Florida initiative (Amendment 2) would re-write the constitution with a ban on gay marriage and domestic partnerships. 60% of the population must vote yes to amend the constitution. Arizona…

A new ABC News/Washington Post poll indicates that evangelicals seem to be at the heart of the Republican get out the vote (GOTV) efforts. 29 percent of white evangelicals say they’ve been contacted by a friend or family member about supporting McCain. A worrisome sign for Republicans: the contact rate for peak Democratic groups is…

Doug Kmiec, the Reagan administration official who has become a key Obama supporter, has posted a new piece in Progressive Revival laying out his basic “Catholic” case for Obama. He writes: Bishops and Republican Partisans – An Unholy and Unseemly Team If there was one disturbing injustice of the campaign, it was that a few…

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