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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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Just because the Democrats have become a lot more open about citing the Bible doesn’t mean all the references are positive. Here’s James Carville, longtime advisor to the Clintons, reacting New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson’s Obama endorsement in the New York TImes:
posted March 24, 2008 at 8:35 pm
I used to like Richardson, now I think he is a bad egg–look for him on the cabinet if not vp….
posted March 25, 2008 at 5:57 pm
James Carville is an infant. His ongoing association with the Clintons should tell us something is amiss with the Clintons. Carville will not even rank as a trivia question in the future. Bill Richardson’s accomplishments and contributions will have a lasting positive effect on our planet. (to say nothing of his 4 Nobel Peace Prize nominations)
posted March 26, 2008 at 1:14 am
The Clintons and their surrogates seem to have decided that they would rather mortally wound Obama and Company to insure a McCain victory so they can have anothe shot in four years. Why else would she say she and McCain were qualified to be commander in chief but not Obama? Why else would Carville be this ugly toward Gov. Richardson? I now accept that personal ambition, not public service, motivate these people. Obama in ’08. I am completely unconflicted by that choice…thank you James Carville.