The Concord Monitor reports on the Obama campaign’s faith outreach effort in New Hampshire, a state not exactly known for its churchgoing fervor: Although Obama rarely refers to religion in his stump speeches, he has actively courted religious voters. In New Hampshire, his campaign met with more than 100 religious leaders, participated in at least…

The more it looks at last night’s entrance polls, the more God-o-Meter is stunned by the extraordinary degree to which Mike Huckabee’s Iowa win was due to evangelical support. Check out these lines from The New York Times: A poll of people entering the Republican caucuses on Thursday showed more than 8 in 10 of…

Fellow Beliefnetter David Kuo writes today that Mike Huckabee is no Pat Robertson–the former Christian Broadcasting Network chief who finished strong in 1988’s Iowa caucuses but went on to go nowhere–because Huckabee’s base of support is much broader: Pat Robertson didn’t have mass appeal. He scared people. He didn’t seem all there. No one is…

In light of Mike Huckabee’s Iowa win on the backs of evangelical caucus goers, God-o-Meter thought it would point out the big Christian Right endorsements of his Republican rivals, as a way of showing the rift between the evangelical elite and the rank and file: Mitt Romney’s endorsements: Supreme Court lawyer Jay Sekulow Christian PR…

More from Beliefnet and our partners
More from Beliefnet and our partners
Close Ad