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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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In this morning’s Wall Street Journal, Karl Rove echoes what God-o-Meter has been saying since Iowa: Mike Huckabee’s hefty evangelical support ain’t strong enough to carry him to the nomination. Here’s what Rove says about some of the “old rules” of campaigning still applying:
posted January 31, 2008 at 9:32 pm
I belef Mike Huckabee is the only real canadate in the race. http://WWW.MIKEHUCKABEE.COM
posted January 31, 2008 at 10:05 pm
Oh, he’s real alright. Really done.
posted February 1, 2008 at 3:04 am
Right now Huckabee is running for VP. He can’t get nominated, he can’t win if he were nominated. But if he gets eight years as Vice President he gets the mantle and maybe, if things are going well and the voters are in a happy move, he might get to be President and move the mobile home to the White House lawn.
But the pickup on the blocks has to stay in Arkansas.
posted February 1, 2008 at 10:13 am
Why is America still under the influence of the virulently homophobic, proven liar, dissembler Rove anyway?
Huckabee the Wannabee theocrat – just think what an uproar there would be in “religious” America if it was a – GASP!!! – liberal pastor who wanted to change the Constitution to have it more in line with his or her theological tenets.
NO RELIGIOUS TESTS for holding public office.
posted February 1, 2008 at 1:28 pm
Charles, I like you’re theory–and some of you word pictures–regarding Huckabee hoping to get to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue as vice president. That raises an important question: were McCain to get the nomination and select Mike Huckabee as his running mate, would it be enough to get McCain the kind of evangelical support he needs to win in November?
posted February 2, 2008 at 2:46 am
God help us all if Huckabee gets anywhere near the White House. He has come right out and advocated changing the Constitution! I have respect for McCain, but if he makes Huckabee his running mate he will be a sell-out to the “agents of intolerance” he once denounced.
posted February 2, 2008 at 4:04 pm
It Huckabee is McCain’s VP choice, that may work with the social conservatives but it will be a harder sell with the fiscal conservatives (and there appears to be more of those).