{"id":28,"date":"2007-09-11T00:06:33","date_gmt":"2007-09-11T00:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/2007\/09\/in-iowa-obama-campaign-stages.html"},"modified":"2007-09-11T00:06:33","modified_gmt":"2007-09-11T00:06:33","slug":"in-iowa-obama-campaign-stages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2007\/09\/in-iowa-obama-campaign-stages.html","title":{"rendered":"In Iowa, Obama campaign stages Iowa \u201cfaith tour\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As if God-o-Meter needed more evidence that Iowa\u2014rural, culturally conservative, and home to the first-in-the-nation presidential caucuses\u2014has become a laboratory for new religious organizing techniques by Democratic presidential candidates, it learns that the Obama campaign is in the middle of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iowapolitics.com\/index.iml?Article=104029\">10-day \u201cfaith tour\u201d<\/a> of Iowa. CBN\u2019s David Brody stopped in at one such event, which feature Obama staffers as opposed to the candidate, and provides <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbn.com\/cbnnews\/229097.aspx\">this video<\/a>. Watching the clip, God-o-Meter sees that the Obama team is stealing a page from the Christian Right&#8217;s playbook by alleging that progressive Christians are under attack by right wingers.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n7<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As if God-o-Meter needed more evidence that Iowa\u2014rural, culturally conservative, and home to the first-in-the-nation presidential caucuses\u2014has become a laboratory for new religious organizing techniques by Democratic presidential candidates, it learns that the Obama campaign is in the middle of a 10-day \u201cfaith tour\u201d of Iowa. 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