{"id":586,"date":"2008-05-05T21:04:23","date_gmt":"2008-05-05T21:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/2008\/05\/clinton-trumpets-methodist-roo.html"},"modified":"2008-05-05T21:04:23","modified_gmt":"2008-05-05T21:04:23","slug":"clinton-trumpets-methodist-roo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2008\/05\/clinton-trumpets-methodist-roo.html","title":{"rendered":"Clinton Trumpets Methodist Roots"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"hillary2.jpg\"Earlier this year, God-o-Meter reported on the Clinton camp’s unusual campaign to organize United Methodists for its Methodist candidate. Tonight in Indiana, Clinton herself joined the effort, brandishing her Methodist roots during an appearance in Indiana’s most heavily Methodist county. Here’s what she said:<\/p>\n

You know, I\u2019m a Methodist, and we believe in doing all the good that you can every day that you can. And that means we come together and we set some goals and we go about achieving them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Politico’s Jonathan Martin<\/a> has the story. When’s the last time John McCain has tailored his message to the religious composition of the county he’s appearing in?<\/p>\n


\n9<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Earlier this year, God-o-Meter reported on the Clinton camp’s unusual campaign to organize United Methodists for its Methodist candidate. Tonight in Indiana, Clinton herself joined the effort, brandishing her Methodist roots during an appearance in Indiana’s most heavily Methodist county. Here’s what she said: You know, I\u2019m a Methodist, and we believe in doing all…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hillary-clinton"],"yoast_head":"\nClinton Trumpets Methodist Roots - God-O-Meter<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2008\/05\/clinton-trumpets-methodist-roo.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Clinton Trumpets Methodist Roots - God-O-Meter\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Earlier this year, God-o-Meter reported on the Clinton camp’s unusual campaign to organize United Methodists for its Methodist candidate. Tonight in Indiana, Clinton herself joined the effort, brandishing her Methodist roots during an appearance in Indiana’s most heavily Methodist county. Here’s what she said: You know, I\u2019m a Methodist, and we believe in doing all…\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2008\/05\/clinton-trumpets-methodist-roo.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"God-O-Meter\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2008-05-05T21:04:23+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/files\/import\/hillary2.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"dgilgoff\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Clinton Trumpets Methodist Roots - God-O-Meter","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2008\/05\/clinton-trumpets-methodist-roo.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Clinton Trumpets Methodist Roots - God-O-Meter","og_description":"Earlier this year, God-o-Meter reported on the Clinton camp’s unusual campaign to organize United Methodists for its Methodist candidate. Tonight in Indiana, Clinton herself joined the effort, brandishing her Methodist roots during an appearance in Indiana’s most heavily Methodist county. Here’s what she said: You know, I\u2019m a Methodist, and we believe in doing all…","og_url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2008\/05\/clinton-trumpets-methodist-roo.html","og_site_name":"God-O-Meter","article_published_time":"2008-05-05T21:04:23+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/files\/import\/hillary2.jpg"}],"author":"dgilgoff","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2008\/05\/clinton-trumpets-methodist-roo.html","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2008\/05\/clinton-trumpets-methodist-roo.html","name":"Clinton Trumpets Methodist Roots - God-O-Meter","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2008\/05\/clinton-trumpets-methodist-roo.html#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2008\/05\/clinton-trumpets-methodist-roo.html#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/files\/import\/hillary2.jpg","datePublished":"2008-05-05T21:04:23+00:00","dateModified":"2008-05-05T21:04:23+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/#\/schema\/person\/b7e97412c87d7a3b866e9972cc090db4"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2008\/05\/clinton-trumpets-methodist-roo.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2008\/05\/clinton-trumpets-methodist-roo.html"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2008\/05\/clinton-trumpets-methodist-roo.html#primaryimage","url":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/files\/import\/hillary2.jpg","contentUrl":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/files\/import\/hillary2.jpg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2008\/05\/clinton-trumpets-methodist-roo.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Clinton Trumpets Methodist Roots"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/","name":"God-O-Meter","description":"A scientific measure of God-talk in the elections","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/#\/schema\/person\/b7e97412c87d7a3b866e9972cc090db4","name":"dgilgoff","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/858\/858da2927809a8352512cd24712c020cx96.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/858\/858da2927809a8352512cd24712c020cx96.jpg","caption":"dgilgoff"},"url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/author\/dgilgoff"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}