Another day, another press release from the conservative Catholic League insisting that John McCain renounce his endorsement from John Hagee: In February, 2000, presidential hopeful Sen. John McCain’s campaign staff made phone calls to prospective voters in Michigan reminding the party faithful of candidate George W. Bush’s visit to Bob Jones University. The message was…

Hillary Clinton has won Ohio, basically a microcosm of the United States. She swept Protestant and Catholic voters there, while Obama won the unchurched and “other Christians.” At the same time, exit polls showed that Obama won weekly and monthly churchgoers, while Clinton took less frequent churchgoers. This makes for a pretty muddy picture of…

In Ohio, John McCain finally beat out Mike Huckabee to win pro-lifers, 56-percent to 36-percent. And yet McCain still lost evangelicals to Huck, 49-percent to 43-percent. That’s nearly half the Ohio electorate. McCain was able to compensate through a landslide win among non-evangelicals.

McCain lost Texas evangelicals to Mike Huckabee 49-percent to 39-percent. It appears that McCain’s born again troubles have only worsened since Super Duper Tuesday a month ago. When does he launch his evangelical turnaround effort?

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