{"id":337,"date":"2008-02-11T10:09:27","date_gmt":"2008-02-11T10:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/2008\/02\/bill-ever-go-to-white-churches.html"},"modified":"2008-02-11T10:09:27","modified_gmt":"2008-02-11T10:09:27","slug":"bill-ever-go-to-white-churches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2008\/02\/bill-ever-go-to-white-churches.html","title":{"rendered":"Bill Ever Go to White Churches?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"bill.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/211\/import\/bill.jpg\" width=\"125\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/02\/10\/b-clinton-takes-to-the-churches\/#more-4212\">The <em>New York Times<\/em> caucus blog<\/a> reports on two more visits to black churches from Bill Clinton in Maryland and Washington, DC, which hold their primaries tomorrow. That follows the former president&#8217;s visits to <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/2008\/02\/a-3church-sunday.html\">three black churches in California last weekend<\/a>. God-o-Meter notes that Clinton has long been well-known for speaking from pulpits of black churches, and can understand the need to do so now more than ever, given the <a href=\"http:\/\/afp.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5g11QB5UQHXmkebJKEka4ipGJ_9mg\">criticism he&#8217;s endured<\/a> for racially-tinged statements about Barack Obama. But given that Barack Obama is beating Hillary Clinton 8-to-1 among black voters and that Hillary&#8217;s base of support is working class white voters, God-o-Meter asks why Bill and Hill aren&#8217;t doing more appearances at white churches. 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