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Article from: The Washington Post
Article date: March 5, 2009
Author: E J Dionne Jr
Will ending the culture wars be as difficult as repairing a
broken economy?
If President Obama's primary task is to restore economic growth,
he has also been waging a quiet, long-term campaign to ease the
nation's divisions around religious and moral questions.
That venture, which has its roots in a 2006 speech that paid
tribute to the political role of religious Americans, bore fruit in
last year's election. Obama increased the Democratic share of the
vote among Roman Catholics and younger evangelical Christians.
Since assuming the ...
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