Saturday, June 09, 2007

Religion and politics grow inseparable
Democratic presidential candidates talk of faith, focus on religious voters
Friday, June 8, 2007
By Joan Lowy
ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON -- The personal faith of candidates has become a very public part of the 2008 presidential campaign.

Seven years after George W. Bush won the presidency in part with a direct appeal to conservative religious voters -- he cited Jesus Christ as his favorite philosopher during one debate -- it seems that all the leading presidential candidates are discussing their religious and moral beliefs, even when they'd rather not.

Democratic Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama have hired strategists to focus on reaching religious voters. Obama's campaign holds a weekly conference call with key supporters in early primary and caucus states. Their role is to spread the candidate's message to religious leaders and opinion-makers and report their concerns to the campaign.
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