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Friday January 18, 2008

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No, this is not a dusted-off entry from Sam Brownback's presidential campaigning days. It's an invitation from God-o-Meter to take Beliefnet's faith and politics '08 poll. This is your chance to weigh in on the most faith-based presidential campaign in memory. We should have results next week.

Tuesday September 18, 2007

Categories: Sam Brownback

Brownback calls Huckabee weak on values

After trailing him in last month’s Ames straw poll and failing to get anywhere near the media attention, Sam Brownback is still beating up Mike Huckabee, a former Baptist preacher, for being insufficiently conservative on social issues. In a release sent out shortly after last night’s Values Voter debate the Brownback camp said Huckabee showed “ignorance of [a] key pro-life issue” because he appeared confused by a question during the debate about the so-called Mexico City Policy, which bars U.S. funds from going to family planning organizations overseas that offer or even discuss the option of abortion. After blowing the competition out of the water with 64-percent support in the Values Voter straw poll, God-o-Meter doubts that Huckabee has much cause for concern.

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God-o-Meter blogger Dan Gilgoff is Beliefnet's Politics Editor. A former political correspondent for U.S. News & World Report, he is author of The Jesus Machine: How James Dobson, Focus on the Family, and Evangelical America are Winning the Culture War.

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