{"id":676,"date":"2008-06-15T11:33:48","date_gmt":"2008-06-15T11:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/2008\/06\/falwells-widow-will-vote-for-m.html"},"modified":"2008-06-15T11:33:48","modified_gmt":"2008-06-15T11:33:48","slug":"falwells-widow-will-vote-for-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2008\/06\/falwells-widow-will-vote-for-m.html","title":{"rendered":"Falwell&#8217;s Widow Will Vote for McCain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As noted from time to time by the God-o-Meter, Senator McCain has not had an easy time of it winning support from conservative evangelical Protestants. So, it certainly can&#8217;t hurt him with that electoral segment that he can count on getting the vote of Macel Falwell &#8220;for sure.&#8221; That&#8217;s what she tells Newsweek&#8217;s Lisa Miller in an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/id\/140908\">interview <\/a>. For many, the Rev. Jerry Falwell, founder of the estwhile Moral Majority Inc. and also Liberty University, held a status as the public voice of the Protestant right-wing for nearly three decades, until his death last year. But Macel Falwell, saying her late husband didn&#8217;t talk much around the house about his activism, declines the opportunity to speculate on whether religious conservatives will play much of a role in the fall election. <\/p>\n<p>As for McCain, Miller asks Mrs. Falwell if she will vote &#8220;happily&#8221; for the presumptive Republican nominee? Her response: she doesn&#8217;t think has &#8220;much of a choice.&#8221; Without mentioning Senator Obama by name, she says that &#8220;it has to be one or the other, and I would prefer&#8221; McCain.<\/p>\n<p>Hmmm&#8230; That might sound a little backhanded. But she&nbsp;does add she&#8217;s sure McCain&nbsp;&#8220;would be Jerry&#8217;s choice.&#8221; Could be a blurb the campaign&nbsp;might consider using.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As noted from time to time by the God-o-Meter, Senator McCain has not had an easy time of it winning support from conservative evangelical Protestants. So, it certainly can&#8217;t hurt him with that electoral segment that he can count on getting the vote of Macel Falwell &#8220;for sure.&#8221; That&#8217;s what she tells Newsweek&#8217;s Lisa Miller&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-john-mccain"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Falwell&#039;s Widow Will Vote for McCain - 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\/06\/falwells-widow-will-vote-for-m.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Falwell&#039;s Widow Will Vote for McCain - God-O-Meter\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"As noted from time to time by the God-o-Meter, Senator McCain has not had an easy time of it winning support from conservative evangelical Protestants. 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