{"id":5135,"date":"2010-10-27T07:41:19","date_gmt":"2010-10-27T07:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2010\/10\/odonnell-pray-that-the-eyes-of-the-voters-be-opened.html"},"modified":"2010-10-27T07:41:19","modified_gmt":"2010-10-27T07:41:19","slug":"odonnell-pray-that-the-eyes-of-the-voters-be-opened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2010\/10\/odonnell-pray-that-the-eyes-of-the-voters-be-opened.html","title":{"rendered":"O’Donnell: “Pray that the eyes of the voters be opened”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"PX00110_91.jpg\"<\/a><\/span> “God is the reason that I’m running. If I didn’t believe that there were a cause greater than myself worth fighting for, if I didn’t believe that it takes a complete dying of self to make things right in this Election cycle I would not be running and when you die to yourself you rely on a power greater than yourself so prayer is what’s gotten us all through. The day that we saw a spike in the polls was a day that some people had a prayer meeting for me that morning for this campaign so I believe that prayer plays a direct role in this campaign and I always ask please pray for the campaign; please pray for our staff; please pray specifically that the eyes of the voters be opened.”<\/p>\n

— Delaware Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell, quoted here.<\/a>
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