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Evangelicals Fall for Obama's Line

'Gullible' voters don't recognize 'Marxism couched in religion'

By Jonas Oransky, Newser Staff

Posted Jul 29, 2008 6:40 AM CDT

(Newser) – Barack Obama talks such a good game that he may fool a sizable contingent of evangelicals into supporting him, David N. Bass writes in the right-wing American Spectator. "Unlike past Democratic presidential nominees, he's not schizoid when it comes to talking about his own... Read full story »

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'Gullible' voters don't recognize 'Marxism couched in religion'

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