{"id":187,"date":"2011-03-07T14:34:04","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T14:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/religionandpubliclife\/2011\/03\/huckabee-and-the-catholics.html"},"modified":"2011-03-07T14:34:04","modified_gmt":"2011-03-07T14:34:04","slug":"huckabee-and-the-catholics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/religionandpubliclife\/2011\/03\/huckabee-and-the-catholics.html","title":{"rendered":"Huckabee and the Catholics"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s no surprise that Barna’s new survey<\/a> of the Republican presidential horse race (h\/t David Gibson<\/a>)
\nshows Mike Huckebee doing well among Protestants, the more conservative
\nthe better. What’s striking to me is that he’s running neck-and-neck
\nwith Mitt Romney in the Catholic favorability sweepstakes: 45-32 as
\nopposed to 46-29. Meanwhile, the unfavorables outweigh the favorables
\namong Catholics for the other three horses: Palin (35-64), Paul (29-35),
\nand Gingrich (27-46). To boot, Gingrich is the only Catholic in the
\nfield. <\/p>\n

Yes, I’m aware that the Beltway likes of George Will<\/a>, E.J. Dionne, and David Brooks<\/a> have written Huckabee off. And that out there in Little Rock, John Brummett thinks<\/a>
\nhe’s only in it for the fame and the dough. But back in 2008 Huck lost
\nthe GOP primaries because he couldn’t get Catholics to vote for him. I’m
\nthinking that he’s looking at those numbers and thinking, Holy Cow!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s no surprise that Barna’s new survey of the Republican presidential horse race (h\/t David Gibson) shows Mike Huckebee doing well among Protestants, the more conservative the better. What’s striking to me is that he’s running neck-and-neck with Mitt Romney in the Catholic favorability sweepstakes: 45-32 as opposed to 46-29. 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After teaching at Harvard in the Department of History and Literature for three years, he became editor of the Boston Review. In 1987 he joined the staff of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, where he worked variously as a reporter, editorial writer and columnist. In 1996 he became the founding director of the Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life at Trinity College and in 1998 founding editor of Religion in the News, a magazine published by the Center that examines how the news media handle religious subject matter. In 2005, he was named director of the Trinity College Program on Public Values, comprising both the Greenberg Center and a new Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture directed by Barry Kosmin. In 2007, he became Professor of Religion in Public Life at the College. Professor Silk is the author of Spiritual Politics: Religion and America Since World War II and Unsecular Media: Making News of Religion in America. He is co-editor of Religion by Region, an eight-volume series on religion and public life in the United States, and co-author of The American Establishment, Making Capitalism Work, and One Nation Divisible: How Regional Religious Differences Shape American Politics. 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