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Formation Toolbox: I’m a loser?
By Benjamin O'Loughlin By November 7, only one candidate will be our next president. The rest will wake up losers. That's human
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Poll: White working class voters are still looking for a candidate, still religious
The white working class, a potentially rich bloc of voters for Republicans or Democrats, hasn’t settled on Mitt Romney or President Barack Obama, a new study from the Public Religion Research Institute shows.
Egyptian court ruling ignites fury
Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court ruling that Ahmed Shafiq, the last prime minister of the old government, is eligible to run for president in this weekend's election despite a law banning ex-officials from the race, has spa...
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Santorum shows the Religious Right isn’t dead yet
Presidential candidate Rick Santorum bows in prayer during a campaign rally in Phoenix, Ariz. RNS photo courtesy Gage Skidmore. (RNS) Does Rick Santorum's Southern surge also herald the return of the Religious Right? Last J...
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Rick Santorum’s secret army: Home-schoolers
Strapped for cash and staff, Rick Santorum has enlisted a ragtag but politically potent army to keep his campaign afloat: home-schoolers. Heading into Super Tuesday tomorrow, Santorum is urging home-schoolers to organize rallie...
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Gingrich, Santorum’s racist remarks against African-Americans show spiritual defect
“Black people are so lazy. They need to get off the welfare and food stamps and get jobs.” Though that sounds like something Archie Bunker would’ve said back in the day, it’s actually the kind of stuff Gingrich people are accus...
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Poll: Preachy Politicians Turn Off Many Voters
If there’s one thing the fractious Republican field agrees on, it’s that personal religious devotion is central to their campaign message. Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney and even Ron Paul stress their fai...
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Will evangelical endorsement fuel Santorum surge?
The Iowa caucuses revived Rick Santorum’s underdog presidential campaign. Now an influential assortment of Christian conservatives has moved to consecrate it. On Saturday, the former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania sewed u...
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Newt Gingrich, the savior of the religious right?
And so it has come to this. Newt Gingrich, the career politician and millionaire “consultant” for the health care and mortgage industries, a twice-divorced and thrice-married convert to Catholicism, may be the last great hope o...
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Bob Jones University questions ‘fundamentalist’ label
When Bob Jones III recently questioned whether President Obama is a Christian, it was a reminder not only that the fundamentalist leader is controversial but also how little the political world has heard from the man and the ro...
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