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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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This article from Congressional Quarterly is mostly on the dramatic shift among Muslims from the Republican to the Democratic column in the last eight years, but it does suggest that Obama will handily beat Hillary Clinton among Muslims:
posted February 27, 2008 at 10:45 am
Anyone else find it ironic that this article plainly puts a large bias in your mind in the form of that direct question? It’s time to look past religion and vote on what a candidate can best do. America needs help. Our country is bleeding and if casting down the jesus fanatics and raising up the level headed intellectuals is the way to give America back its pride, then so be it.
posted February 27, 2008 at 4:06 pm
Honestly I am very discouraged, saddened and deeply offended as much as by what is NOT being said by Barack Obama as what is being said and insinuated by these candidates and their people. The presupposition to these incidents is that there is something wrong with being a Muslim – and as a Muslim and an American this is the larger question.
Well, we have an evangelical Christian in the White House and what has THAT gotten us? He and his lackeys have bombed, invaded and raped a sovereign nation that had nothing to do with 9/11 – he is considered a terrorist all over the world, NOT his faith “that guides him”.