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John McCain is visiting Minnesota this evening, holding a “town hall event” in St. Paul, not terribly far from where he’ll be again when the GOP holds its convention come September. The trip has already stirred up talk of whether the state’s Republican governor, Tim Pawlenty, might become McCain’s pick as running mate. It’s not…

Kansas Senator Sam Brownback, erstwhile presidential candidate, says his choice for president, Senator McCain, needs to talk more about his personal faith. “I think he should,” Brownback tells National Public Radio, “but not just as a way to warm up to Christian conservatives, but to show his country his heart. I think the country wants…

A great, quadrennial subject that political reporters like to chew over is the question, does a distinctly “Catholic vote” still exist in the United States? That’s to say, given that Catholics represent the single-largest religious group in the nation–about 24 percent of the population–can either party sway them as a voting bloc, or near-bloc? Let’s put aside…

The God-o-Meter has sometimes wondered why Senator McCain doesn’t seem to hold the allure for religious conservatives that President Bush has, even though the Arizonan has seemed to stand close to the president on key social issues. And then along comes an analytical article, comparing Bush’s and McCain’s positions, by the estimable political reporter Elizabeth…
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