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  • August 2008

    • Young Evangelical Vote Is Up For Grabs

      Washington Post  |  Aug 15, 08 12:29 PM CDT

      Young Evangelical Vote Is Up For Grabs

      (Newser) - When Barack Obama and John McCain meet with pastor Rick Warren tomorrow, they’ll be fighting for the future of an increasingly split evangelical voting block, the Washington Post reports. Warren, author of The Purpose Driven Life, is at the forefront of a movement rippling through young evangelicals and prompting them to focus on issues outside the normal Republican purview, like AIDS, poverty, and climate change. More »

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      Barack Obama  • John McCain  • environment  • religion  • gay marriage  • abortion  • evangelicals  • Republican evangelicals  • Rick Warren

  • July 2008
  • June 2008

    • Anti-Obama Evangelical Writes Pro-Obama Book

      Politico  |  Jun 16, 08 4:35 PM CDT

      Anti-Obama Evangelical Writes Pro-Obama Book

      (Newser) - Stephen Mansfield expects to cast his ballot against Barack Obama in November. But that hasn’t stopped him from writing an admiring book about the candidate's religious profile— The Faith of Barack Obama —which argues that the candidate may well steal young evangelical voters away from John McCain. McCain is “clumsy when it comes to religion,” Mansfield tells Politico, in stark contrast to Obama’s “fluency” in the language of Christianity. More »

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      Barack Obama  • John McCain  • Election 2008  • book  • abortion  • Christianity  • evangelicals  • abortion rights  • Republican evangelicals

    • Quietly, McCain Makes Overtures to Evangelicals

      New York Times  |  Jun 9, 08 7:32 AM CDT

      Quietly, McCain Makes Overtures to Evangelicals

      (Newser) - John McCain faces a challenge uncommon among GOP presidential candidates: rallying evangelical Christians to vote for him. As the New York Times reports, the McCain campaign is holding meetings with evangelical leaders and blasting them with emails, but many are still taking a wait-and-see approach. And McCain's lack of rapport with religious conservatives was exacerbated by his recent rejection of  endorsements of the Rev. John Hagee and the Rev. Rod Parsley. More »

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      John McCain  • Election 2008  • religion  • Republican Party  • evangelicals  • Republican nomination  • Republican evangelicals  • John Hagee  • Rod Parsley

  • February 2008
  • January 2008
  • December 2007

    • Mitt: 'Freedom Requires Religion'

      CNN  |  Dec 6, 07 11:00 AM CST

      Mitt: 'Freedom Requires Religion'

      (Newser) - In a much-hyped address on religion, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney asserted today, “Freedom and religion endure together, or perish alone." The former Massachusetts governor focused on religious liberty during the speech in College Station, Texas, but did allow that if Mormonism hurts his candidacy, “so be it.” Romney avoided addressing specifics of a faith many evangelicals consider a cult. More »

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      Mitt Romney  • religion  • Massachusetts  • Catholicism  • Mormonism  • Republican evangelicals

  • November 2007

    • Half of GOP Evangelicals Might Ditch Giuliani: Poll

      Associated Press  |  Nov 1, 07 4:39 PM CDT

      Half of GOP Evangelicals Might Ditch Giuliani: Poll

      (Newser) - 55% of white evangelical Republicans would consider a third-party candidate if the 2008 presidential race comes down to Rudy Giuliani vs. Hillary Clinton, according to a new survey. The GOP frontrunner's views on abortion, gay rights and gun control are too liberal for the tastes of many conservative Christians; evangelicals make up about 34% of Republican and Republican-leaning voters. More »

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      Hillary Clinton  • Election 2008  • Rudy Giuliani  • poll  • Republican evangelicals

  • September 2007

    • Evangelicals Divided Over Global Warming

      Wall Street Journal  |  Sep 28, 07 2:59 PM CDT

      Evangelicals Divided Over Global Warming

      (Newser) - Tensions among evangelicals are rising along with the sea level in a battle over whether concern for the environment has a place in houses of worship. Both sides of the widening gulf quote scripture, either to remind that God's plan is unalterable, or to cite the biblical injunction to be "good stewards of God's creation," the Wall Street Journal reports. More »

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      climate change  • global warming  • evangelicals  • Republican evangelicals

    • Thompson Losing Evangelicals

      Politico  |  Sep 27, 07 12:31 PM CDT

      Thompson Losing Evangelicals

      (Newser) - Fred Thompson, once the longed-for alternative to a field of uninspiring GOP candidates, didn't get through his campaign's first official month before the religious right started jumping ship, Politico reports. Thompson's refusal to back a gay marriage ban, past lobbying for an abortion-rights group, and refusal to talk religion has conservatives scrambling to find a different candidate to stop frontrunner Rudy Giuliani's nomination. More »