Spiritual Politics
Romney Drops Out
By rvineis — February 7, 2008
Mitt Romney dropped out of the race for the Republican nomination today. His announcement at the Conservative Political Action Committee this afternoon included some remarks on religion. Romney; “Americans love God, and those who don’t have faith, typically believe in something greater than themselves—a “Purpose Driven Life.” And we sacrifice everything we have, even our […]
Prayer Breakfast
By rvineis — February 7, 2008
In case you forgot, today was the National Prayer Breakfast.
CT for Obama
By Mark Silk — February 7, 2008
If any Super Tuesday state can be considered an upset win for Obama, it was Connecticut, where he was down double digits in the polls just a few weeks ago and came out on top by 51 percent to 47 percent. In today’s Hartford Courant, Mark Pazniokas has this secular account of how the Illinois […]
Georgia for Huck
By Mark Silk — February 6, 2008
The following is from my favorite informant on the doings of Christian conservatives in Georgia, a person I refer to as the Last Democrat in her suburban Atlanta church. I guess you saw last night the big voter turnout for Huckabee in GA – fueled by his non-stop appearances in white evangelical pulpits the last […]
Religious Coalitions and Super Tuesday
By johngreen — February 6, 2008
On Super Tuesday, John McCain benefited greatly from winner-take-all primaries in big states, but he also assembled the broad religious coalition that characterized his previous victories. California is a good example: he won the unaffiliated (43%) and white Catholics (40%), broke even with Romney among white Protestants (37%), and finished second among white evangelical Protestants […]
Obama’s Jewish Problem?
By Mark Silk — February 6, 2008
Obama lost the Jewish vote in New York by two-to-one, and by almost that much in New Jersey. In California, Jewish voters went to Clinton as well but by a much narrower margin, 48 percent to 44 percent (with the balance going to Edwards). Yet in Connecticut, Jews went for Obama by better than three-to-two–the […]
Obama’s Catholic Problem
By Mark Silk — February 6, 2008
Just about everywhere Obama fared poorly with Catholics on Super Tuesday. In heavily Irish Catholic New England, the margins were big. Likewise in the more mixed ethnic Catholicism of the Middle Atlantic States. In California, where Latinos dominate the Catholic population, even worse. (Not quite so bad in New Mexico and Arizona.) Even in his […]
Single Religious Constituencies and Super Tuesday
By johngreen — February 6, 2008
On Super Tuesday, Mike Huckabee won four Southern states with a strong evangelical vote: Alabama (51% of the white born again Protestant vote), Georgia (45%), and Tennessee (43%), plus his home state of Arkansas. Evangelical votes also allowed him to closely contest Missouri (44%) and Oklahoma (39%). These figures resemble Huckabee’s showing in Iowa, among […]
What Huck Can Do
By Mark Silk — February 5, 2008
What Super Tuesday has shown is that in a state with lots of evangelicals, Huckabee can eke out a victory in a three-man race.
Huckabee a.k.a. David
By rvineis — February 5, 2008
Huck began his speech tonight stressing the importance of “one smooth stone”.
New Mexico
By Mark Silk — February 5, 2008
Latino Catholics very strong for Clinton in New Mexico–but Obama stronger among the large number of religiously unaffiliated.
Alabama
By Mark Silk — February 5, 2008
Huckabee very strong in Alabama, thanks to 48 percent of evangelicals–his best showing among them anywhere, if I’m not mistaken.
Mizzou
By Mark Silk — February 5, 2008
Obama stronger among Catholics in Missouri–Heartland Catholics different from the East Coast variety?
Coast to Coast Evangelicals
By rvineis — February 5, 2008
MSNBC is reporting that of the votes cast thus far evangelicals have broken: 33% Huck 31% Romney, 53% voted for a candidate that “Share my values” with a majority voting for Huck, and 21% voted for as “experience” as the most important issue.
Mark Silk
Spiritual Politics
Mark Silk is Professor of Religion in Public Life at Trinity College and director of the college's Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life. He is a Contributing Editor of the Religion News Service