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EVANGELICALS ACTUALLY BELIEVE IN FAMILY VALUES, JOHN McCAIN NOT SO MUCH

June 9, 2008

[UPDATE 1: The New York Times has a story today about the steps the McCain camp is taking to court evangelicals.

It says that evangelicals are being outreached to by McCain, mostly through campaign emails, but they're largely in a "holding pattern" around his candidacy.

Meanwhile: Obama's hiring a "full time evangelical-focused staff member" to make some shit happen, God knows.

It also quotes David Brody of CBN's Brody File, who says that although Rev. Wright has hurt Obama among evangelicals, with that controversy behind him Obama has "great potential still...to reintroduce himself...especially with his spiritual talk."]

[UPDATE 2: I guess it's "McCain's Evangelical Problem Day"...Conservative pundit Bob Novaks' take here. My guess is it won't help that Rev. Hagee (kind of a big deal in the God-fearing crowd) is going around telling people: "McCain threw me under the bus."]

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