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This article from Congressional Quarterly is mostly on the dramatic shift among Muslims from the Republican to the Democratic column in the last eight years, but it does suggest that Obama will handily beat Hillary Clinton among Muslims: This year, the bulk of Muslim support is likely to go to Democratic Sen. Barack Obama of…

As he mulls a run for Congress in Utah, Mitt Romney’s son Josh tells the Deseret Morning News that the Mormon factor mattered in his dad’s primary loss largely because Mike Huckabee made it an issue: Huckabee, a Southern Baptist minister, brought out a surprising number of evangelical voters in Iowa. They weren’t voting against…

You know things are bad when your own Christian Right liaison is saying publicly that there’s still lots of work for you to do even as you’re sailing toward the nomination. And the AP reports that McCain’s top envoy to the movement, Sam Brownback, isn’t the only one still waiting for McCain to do more…

A couple weeks ago, God-o-Meter reported that the progressive group Faith in Public Life, incensed that primary state exit polls failed to ask Democratic voters whether or not they’re evangelicals (as those polls do for Republicans) took it upon itself to commission its own polls for the Tennessee and Missouri primaries. The results suggested that…

Forgive God-o-Meter if it’s the only one not to pick up on this earlier. According to New York Times columnist Bill Kristol (that still sounds weird, doesn’t it?) Michelle Obama has been saying publicly that Americans suffer from hole-in-the-soul disease: [A]s she had argued in the Wisconsin speech, America’s illness goes far beyond a flawed…

Both Huckabee and Dobson are staying mum on what the two spoke about when they sat down together in Colorado Springs this weekend. Here’s what God-o-Meter would like to ask them, if it could: Did Dobson ask Huck about his support for a government mandated cap-and-trade program to limit carbon emissions and fight global warming,…

After reading this New Republic article, God-o-Meter is convinced that it’s not as big a stretch as it sounds. Here’s the gist: Obama is the candidate of the new–a “new generation,” a “new leadership,” a “new kind of politics,” to borrow phrases he has used. But, in emphasizing newness, Obama is actually voicing a very…

While Barack Obama was distancing himself from his pastor’s past support for Louis Farrakhan before a Jewish audience yesterday, Farrakhan himself was singing Obama’s praises. The AP reports: The 74-year-old Farrakhan, addressing an estimated crowd of 20,000 people at the annual Saviours’ Day celebration, never outrightly endorsed Obama but spent most of the nearly two-hour…

It wasn’t on his public campaign schedule, but Barack Obama powwowed yesterday with roughly 100 Jewish activists in Cleveland as part of his ongoing campaign to reassure Jews of his commitment to Israel (he’d formerly been more vocal about his sympathy for the plight of Palestinians), his disagreements with his longtime pastor (who has expressed…

How else to explain why Clinton staffers would circulate a photo of Obama dressed as a Somali elder?
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