{"id":94,"date":"2007-11-07T13:35:09","date_gmt":"2007-11-07T13:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/2007\/11\/mccain-wins-brownback-nod.html"},"modified":"2007-11-07T13:35:09","modified_gmt":"2007-11-07T13:35:09","slug":"mccain-wins-brownback-nod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2007\/11\/mccain-wins-brownback-nod.html","title":{"rendered":"McCain Wins Brownback Nod"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s official. Conservative Kansas senator and former presidential candidate Sam Brownback is supporting John McCain. In a joint appearance in Dubuque, Iowa, Brownback, a darling of the Christian right, called his senate colleague from Arizona \u201cthe best pro-life candidate to beat Hillary Clinton.\u201d<br \/>\nYou can read the full AP account of the announcement <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/11\/07\/AR2007110700594.html\">here<\/a>, and the official statement released by the McCain campaign <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnmccain.com\/brownback\/\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nThe endorsement may provide a much-needed boost for McCain in Iowa, where he currently is running <a href=\"http:\/\/americanresearchgroup.com\/pres08\/iarep8-711.html\">fourth<\/a> among GOP hopefuls. But since Brownback was unable to parlay his personal popularity among evangelicals into support for his own candidacy, God-o-Meter is dubious about how much weight his endorsement will carry. The impact pales in comparison, in GOM\u2019s view, to Pat Robertson\u2019s surprise <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/2007\/11\/robertson-backs-giuliani.html\">endorsement of Rudy Giuliani <\/a>earlier in the day. But if nothing else, it keeps the race interesting.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s official. Conservative Kansas senator and former presidential candidate Sam Brownback is supporting John McCain. In a joint appearance in Dubuque, Iowa, Brownback, a darling of the Christian right, called his senate colleague from Arizona \u201cthe best pro-life candidate to beat Hillary Clinton.\u201d You can read the full AP account of the announcement here, and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","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>McCain Wins Brownback Nod - 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\/2007\/11\/mccain-wins-brownback-nod.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"McCain Wins Brownback Nod - God-O-Meter\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It\u2019s official. 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