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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.
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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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As far as religiosity goes, Barack Obama’s South Carolina victory tonight cut across all lines; he won both among weekly churchgoers and those who seldom or never attend church. But Obama fared best among those who attend church most often. Looking at the exit polls, Obama won 64-percent of South Carolina Democrats who attend church more than once a week, compared to just 23-percent for Hillary Clinton. That’s nearly a three-to-one advantage. Among those who never attend church, meanwhile, Obama won just 38-percent, compared to 31-percent for Clinton. Obama may have granted a lot of interviews to religious outlets like Beliefnet last week to combat those false rumors about him being Muslim, but it wound up doing a lot more than that, giving him a big advantage among faith voters.
posted January 26, 2008 at 10:27 pm
Obama’s dominance over Clinton in the SC voting shouldn’t surprise anyone. Bill is doing for Hillary what John Kerry’s wife did for him in the 2004 election. Has he really been out of politics so long he doesn’t realize how much damage he’s doing to Hillary’s campaign with his childish rants and baseless attacks on Obama?
posted February 2, 2008 at 7:41 am
I feel Bill Clinton was making a calculated move to do a few things to the Obama campaign:
1. Cause confusion among the voters, as you are well aware the everyday media would prefer to write more about gossip than truth. Well this would be great for Hillary, because we the voters would no longer be focused on the truth. The truth being our desire to know: If you are elected President how will that benefit my family ?
2. Bill is a millionaire and I truly believe he is lost touch with the people of the United States who the majority are not rich. His point of view along with his wife many times will be those of the wealthy, not those of the majority, so this is the action we see from Bill attacking Obama. There is a lot of money at stake and those who are rich in our country can not afford for the US to take on any new directions. So he is not attacking Obama, he is attacking what Obama stands for (change)!
3. Final point, Hillary I feel would be a fine President if she had a different spouse. However, I truly don’t like the ideal of former President Clinton’s return to the White House (so many adverse character issues we should remember as Christians ) So I don’t see any real change for America with the Clintons, so my vote is for Obama!