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Obama's Faith: Fascinating Interview Unearthed

The Huffington Post | Posted 11.12.2008 | Politics


Cathleen Falsani of the Chicago Sun-Times interviewed Barack Obama in 2004 on his faith and spirituality. She's now published the entire interview. He...

Campaign Journal: Canvassing for Mandela and Obama in Bristol, PA

Shaun Gatter | Posted 11.03.2008 | Home


Shaun Gatter

Shaun Gatter is an OffTheBus Grassroots Correspondent. Each week he contributes a campaign journal documenting his life out on the trail. Growing up ...

Campaign Journal: Baracking the Vote for God

Veola Carter | Posted 11.03.2008 | Home


Veola Carter

Veola Carter is an OffTheBus grassroots correspondent. Each week she contributes a campaign journal documenting her life out on the trail. With the o...

Michelle Obama Rallies and Reassures Influential North Carolina Baptists

Kelly Nuxoll | Posted 10.30.2008 | Home


Kelly Nuxoll

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. -- While her husband rallied more than 10,000 people sixty miles away in Raleigh, Michelle Obama swooped into Fayetteville on Wedne...

Poll: Obama Leads Among Christians

Posted 08.13.2008 | Politics


The Barna Group, a Christian research firm, shows Barack Obama leading John McCain by a substantial margin among Christian voters: A new nationwide s...

Obama Muslim Smears Fought In Union Mailer

AP | JESSE J. HOLLAND | Posted 07.29.2008 | Politics


WASHINGTON — The nation's largest labor organization mailed 600,000 fliers to swing union voters in four states Tuesday in an effort to help Dem...

Blinkered By Blackness

Andrea King Collier | Posted 07.28.2008 | Home


Andrea King Collier

In fact, the question of race has cheated us out of learning more about Obama, about what he would do if he actually became president. We know he's black. Now we need to know more.

Obama's Faith-Based Program for Muslims

Steve Posner | Posted 07.14.2008 | Politics


Steve Posner

Obama's faith should be irrelevant since unlike Bush's Christian-dominated faith-based initiatives, he insists that he will not use government resources to promote either Christianity or Islam or any other religion.

1% Of Voters Think Obama Is Jewish

TNR | Posted 07.10.2008 | Politics


The latest Pew Poll (in which Barack Obama leads John McCain 48-40) asks registered voters what religion they think Barack Obama is. Only 57% say that...

Franklin Graham to Obama: Are You A Muslim? (And How Obama Courted Hagee's Publisher)

Max Blumenthal | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics


Max Blumenthal

On June 10, Barack Obama convened a meeting in a law office in downtown Chicago with a wide array of about thirty evangelical leaders, in an unprecedented effort to win their support.

Obama's Outreach To Christian Left

Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics


Obama's high-profile speech on religion was only one part of his effort to bring evangelicals over to the Democratic party, CNN reports: Obama's ou...

New Email Smear: Obama The "Antichrist"

Politico | Ben Smith | Posted 03.13.2008 | Politics


You knew the viral smear emails were headed this way, and a reader sends it along, courtesy of a relative in Syracuse: One of the standard anti-Obama ...

Nico Pitney

What's Behind Obama's "Committed Christian" Mailer?

HuffingtonPost.com | Nico Pitney | Posted 01.21.2008 | Politics


The Obama camp has a new South Carolina mailer touting him as a "committed Christian" who has been "called to Christ." (TPM Election Central has the f...