{"id":2347,"date":"2008-10-27T10:03:31","date_gmt":"2008-10-27T10:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2008\/10\/some-obamalove-from-religious.html"},"modified":"2008-10-27T10:03:31","modified_gmt":"2008-10-27T10:03:31","slug":"some-obamalove-from-religious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2008\/10\/some-obamalove-from-religious.html","title":{"rendered":"Some Obama-Love from Religious Folks and Another Funny Video&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So the word from the Pew Research Center is that &#8220;religious voters appear to be gradually gravitating toward Barack Obama as their pick for president.&#8221; While Obama is edging out McCain among the mainline Protestant demographic, apparently, &#8220;McCain still holds an advantage over his rival among white evangelical Protestant voters,&#8221; says the <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2008\/10\/22\/religious-voters-moving-toward-obama\/\" target=\"_blank\">CNN article about the poll<\/a>. And while we&#8217;re on the subject of Obama, I have to give props to my two Jewish friends who turned their pro-Obama &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7DIc8jdra0o\" target=\"_blank\">Hey Sarah Palin<\/a>&#8221; Youtube video into a minor franchise (they are now selling T-Shirts), producing a video which is currently one of the most popular on all of Youtube (!!!). They are approaching two million hits&#8230;And back by popular demand, they&#8217;ve done it again with another video called &#8220;Vote Barack&#8221;&#8211;this time rewriting the rap lyrics to Young MC&#8217;s &#8220;Bust A Move.&#8221; I have to say, this is one of the funniest things I&#8217;ve seen. Disclaimer though: there is a bit of swearing! 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