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Steven Waldman

One of the leading myths about the 2004 election is that George W. Bush won mostly because of massive support from evangelicals. Support of evangelicals wouldn’t have been nearly enough without his big victory among conservative Catholics and mainline Protestants. In the last few elections, we’ve seen the birth of a “Religious Conservative Alliance” that…

In a campaign loaded with unusual attacks, I’d thought that the smeariest had to be the suggestion that Obama is the anti-Christ. I’m no professional political pundit, but I just have to think that being the anti-Christ has got to cost you some votes. (Close runner ups: Obama helped massacre Christians, wants to burn Jews,…

Sam Harris’s attack on Sarah Palin in Newsweek is a mix of brilliant analysis and grossly unfair bits of stereotyping. First, the unfair. “Every detail that has emerged about Palin’s life in Alaska suggests that she is as devout and literal-minded in her Christian dogmatism as any man or woman in the land.” As dogmatic…

Last March when polls reported that 10% of the population thought Barack Obama was Muslim, I counseled calm: Obama is a new character on the scene. As people get to know him, that percentage will decline. Instead, it’s gone up. The newest poll from the Pew Research Center showed that 13% now believe he’s Muslim…

This survey indicates — yes.

At the Saddleback Forum, Obama boasted, accurately, about how he’d stuck a sentence into the Democratic platform encouraging support for women who wanted totake a baby to term instead of having an abortion. Pro-life progressives hailed that sentence as a great victory and sign that he might be able to win over moderate evangelicals and…

A hilarious explanation of how we got into this mess. (Warning: cussing is included)

“If men were angels, no government would be necessary.” –James Madison, Federalist 51 Whenever I’m asked if it’s really true that the Founding Fathers instilled “Judeo-Christian values’ into the Constitution, I reply, yes, but not in the way you think. They did not mention God in the Constitution and specifically avoided giving Christianity any special…

One of the most significant findings of John Green’s new study comparing political views by faith is that even the most religious of the groups care more about economics than social issues this year. In 2004, only 18.2% of evangelical listed the economy as the “top priority.” This year, 45.6% do. The shift is even…

We talk of politicians as if they’re uniquely duplicitous bunch but American culture accepts a great deal of lying as being part of the game of life. Today’s example: I was on a business trip recently. Several times when I asked a cab driver for a receipt, he handed me a clump of four or…
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