{"id":76,"date":"2007-10-29T11:26:08","date_gmt":"2007-10-29T11:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/2007\/10\/in-vegas-hillary-goes-to-churc.html"},"modified":"2007-10-29T11:26:08","modified_gmt":"2007-10-29T11:26:08","slug":"in-vegas-hillary-goes-to-churc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2007\/10\/in-vegas-hillary-goes-to-churc.html","title":{"rendered":"In Vegas, Hillary Goes to Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent column in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lvrj.com\/opinion\/10786701.html\"><em>The Las Vegas Review-Journal<\/em><\/a> notes that Hillary Clinton recieved a rousing reception at a little-noticed visit to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.victorymbc.org\/\">black megachurch in West Las Vegas<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After waking between 2,000-thread-count sheets at the Four Seasons, Clinton attended services at Victory Missionary Baptist Church in West Las Vegas. Dr. Robert Fowler, the pastor and a member of her steering committee, welcomed her to the fold.<br \/>\nThe black churches of West Las Vegas are still in many ways the opening to black voters, a majority of whom have come to expect these election cycle visits as a requirement for their support.<br \/>\nObama events continue to draw a more diverse and younger crowd than events staged by the other Democratic candidates. But Clinton certainly won&#8217;t be ceding the black vote in Nevada. And if Sunday&#8217;s reception at Victory Baptist was any indication, she hasn&#8217;t much worry on that front.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The report raises a question for God-o-Meter: Is all the news about Barack Obama&#8217;s vigorous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/POLITICS\/10\/27\/obama.gospel\/\">black church outreach in South Carolina<\/a> obscuring similar efforts by Hillary Clinton? Is Obama&#8217;s effort that much stronger, or just more widely publicized?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n7<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent column in The Las Vegas Review-Journal notes that Hillary Clinton recieved a rousing reception at a little-noticed visit to a black megachurch in West Las Vegas: After waking between 2,000-thread-count sheets at the Four Seasons, Clinton attended services at Victory Missionary Baptist Church in West Las Vegas. 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