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Closed for the Season
With Election Day finally having come and gone, God-o-Meter is closing up shop till 2012--or at least 2010. Till then, get your faith and politics fix over at Beliefnet editor-in-chief Steve Waldman's blog.
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posted 4:32:33pm Nov. 19, 2008 |
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On The Religious Left, Great Expectations
The first priorities for Barack Obama's administration will be the economy and a variety of foreign policy issues. But the burgeoning religious left, which worked so hard to get Obama elected, expects some movement on its issues, including a robust White House office of faith-based initiatives, pove
posted 1:49:31pm Nov. 07, 2008 |
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Howard Dean's Vindication
God-o-Meter wrote a piece for today's Roll Call on the vindication of Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean's much-derided 50-State Strategy, which is largely about reaching out to the nation's more religious voters in the red states:
Years before Barack Obama showed that a liberal Demo
posted 2:01:06pm Nov. 06, 2008 |
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A Post-Election Chat with Ralph Reed
Amid today's talk that Barack Obama has narrowed the God Gap, God-o-Meter checked in with Ralph Reed, who spearheaded religious outreach for George W. Bush's 2000 and 2004 campaigns and who pioneered such outreach for Republicans as executive director of the Christian Coalition.
What surprised you i
posted 3:09:07pm Nov. 05, 2008 |
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More Innacurate Faith Storylines From the Media
God-o-Meter is struck by the number of faith-based storylines the news media appear to have gotten dead wrong this year.
One was the line that Obama was poised to make big gains among white votes, especially evangelicals, who were undergoing a generational shift in their political thinking and reexa
posted 11:53:20am Nov. 05, 2008 |
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posted October 6, 2007 at 6:35 am
Romney, I don’t see the point in electing a guy that only has 4 years in any type of elected office. Even then, it was in the most liberal state in the nation.
posted October 6, 2007 at 8:26 am
What is actually sad is that he probably did more in those four years than any of the “career” politicians accomplished over many years in politics.
posted October 6, 2007 at 4:02 pm
I SCORE HIM HIGH, BUT A LITTLE TOO WISHY WASHY! MIGHT BE TOO LIBERAL FOR ME??
posted October 7, 2007 at 2:13 pm
Romney can’t make up his mind on just what he thinks. He is to flip-flopy for me too.
posted October 8, 2007 at 2:04 pm
So he has only had 4 years of elected office, so what? 90% of carreer politicians are clueless about what to do. Romney has a track record of taking large institutions that are broken and turning them around. I just wish he’d stand up and say “Yes, I’m Mormon. Yes I’m a Christian and if you don’t believe me you’re ignorant and need to go do your research.”
posted October 9, 2007 at 12:49 pm
BILLY G: A lot of conservative religious activists feel the same way about Romney; They love his support for a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage and for overturning Roe v. Wade, but since they’ve been burned so many times by supposedly conservative candidates and appointees–Sandra Day O’Connor and David Souter come to mind–they want to see a solid conservative track record, which Romney lacks. This makes it difficult to tell the role that his Mormonism is playing in preventing Romney from picking up more Christian Right support.