2008 Presidential Election Coverage

1/5/08 McCain supporters in this state wish McCain would consider Lieberman. While attending a John McCain event in December, Paul Brooks of Salem, N.H., recalls telling the Republican senator that Lieberman would be a great choice for vice president. According to Brooks, McCain responded, "That's worth considering."

12/31/07 Republican presidential hopeful John McCain brought his pitch to a New Hampshire church basement on Saturday, but religion was hardly on his agenda.

12/27/07 Sen. John McCain, given up for dead a few weeks ago as he ran a cash-starved, disorganized campaign, today is viewed by canny Republican professionals as the best bet to win the party's presidential nomination. What's more, they consider him their most realistic prospect to buck the overall Democratic tide and win the general election. Indeed, if Mike Huckabee holds on to actually win the Jan. 3 Iowa caucuses, the road forward could be clear for McCain.

11/08/07 Sam Brownback, a Kansas conservative and favorite of evangelical Christians, on Wednesday endorsed former Republican presidential rival John McCain, calling the Arizona senator "the best pro-life candidate to beat Hillary Clinton."

10/6/07 "I just have to say in all candor that since this nation was founded primarily on Christian principles ... personally, I prefer someone who I know who has a solid grounding in my faith," McCain said. "But that doesn't mean that I'm sure that someone who is Muslim would not make a good president."

9/18/07 Republican presidential candidate John McCain said Monday that questions over whether he identifies himself as a Baptist or an Episcopalian are not as important as his overarching faith. "The most important thing is that I am a Christian," the Arizona senator told reporters following two campaign stops in this early voting state.

9/13/07 McCain: I'm a Baptist

Democrats

Hillary Clinton

Senator NY

Official website. Washington Post background article.

3/19/08 Mrs. Clinton: St. Patrick Was Pro-Life

3/10/08 Protestants Go for Clinton

3/7/08 Hillary: “I have Felt the Presence of the Holy Spirit”

3/2/08 Clinton goes to church, stumps for wife in Houston

2/9/08 Catholic Vote Is Harbinger of Success for Clinton

2/4/08 Bill Clinton courts black churchgoers

1/25/08 Top Earmark-er Clinton Grants $303,000 to 'Gay' Lobby Group

1/23/08 Hillary Clinton on Abortion

1/9/08 Rove: Obama's 'Smarmy, Prissy' Slap Helped Clinton

1/6/08 Clinton argues she is more pro-abortion than Obama

12/13/07 The problem is not that Rick and Kay Warren invited Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to be the keynote speaker at their third annual Global Summit on AIDS and the Church at Saddleback Church. The problem is that Rick Warren never engaged the Senator on the points where many evangelicals are at odds with her agenda.

12/12/07 Hillary's Spiritual Formation and What Hillary Believes.

12/5/07 A volunteer Iowa county coordinator for Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign has resigned after forwarding a chain e-mail that suggests Barack Obama is a Muslim who wants to destroy the United States by being elected to its highest office. Obama is a member of the United Church of Christ.

12/5/07 Hillary Rodham Clinton's support from South Carolina's black religious leaders may not be quite as extensive as her campaign suggests.

12/3/07 Why Warren embraces Hillary

11/21/07 Senator Hillary Clinton (D-New York) will join Rick Warren at his California church this month for an AIDS conference. More here.

11/02/07 Senator Hillary Clinton has blasted conservative Christian politicians for wearing their faith on their sleeve (she didn’t name names). On one occasion, this condemnation elicited screaming cheers from outraged liberals in the audience.

10/8/07 Hilary Clinton said last week that if elected she would sign executive order reversing President Bush's restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research

Barack Obama

Senator Illinois, United Church of Christ Member

Official website. Washington Post background article.

3/19/08 Obama and His ‘White Grandmother’

3/18/08 Obama’s faith: wacky, or disingenuous

3/18/08 Obama’s ‘I Didn’t Inhale’ Defense

3/18/08 Pastor Defends His Predecessor at Obama's Chicago Church

3/18/08 Obama pastor’s theology: Destroy ‘the white enemy’

3/17/08 Obama's Strategic Dissing of Pastor an Ugly Thing

3/17/08 Attacks on his church trouble Obama

3/15/08 Obama denounces pastor's 9/11 comments

3/14/08 Obama’s Pastor: God Damn America, U.S. to Blame for 9/11

3/13/08 Church in Hot Water After Obama’s Pastor Makes Controversial Statements

3/11/08 Obama fury over Clinton backer Ferraro’s race remark

3/10/08 Obama lobbies gays for edge over Hillary

3/7/08 The Top Nine “Changes” Barack Obama Would Make as President

3/6/08 Media silent on Obama's controversial interpretation of scripture

3/6/08 Frank Doesn't Back Obama's Biblical Blessing of Same-Sex Unions

3/5/08 Obama's Bible Defense of Same-Sex Unions Wrong, Experts Say

3/3/08 Obama: Sermon on Mount Justifies Same-sex unions

3/3/08 My Pro-Abortion Position Doesn't Make Me Less Christian

3/3/08 Obama Connects with Hispanic Evangelicals in Texas

3/3/08 Obama Not Muslim as Far As I Know Clinton Says

3/2/08 Obama defends his Christian religion

3/1/08 Obama Sees Presidency As 'Bully Pulpit' for Full 'LGBT Equality'

3/1/08 Obama's Support Steeped in Messianic Terminology

2/29/08 Obama Under Fire for Terri Schiavo Remark

2/29/08 Kenya Muslims back protests over Obama picture

2/27/08 IRS Investigating Obama's United Church Of Christ

2/25/08 Islamic Link On Obama's Website Stirs Criticism

2/25/08 A spry Farrakhan sings Obama's praises

2/21/08 Commentary: Is Obama a (or the) Messiah?

2/20/08 Should Evangelicals Embrace Barack Obama?

2/8/08 Obama fights back on abortion stance

2/4/08 MoveOn.Org Makes Its First-Ever Primary Endorsement

1/29/08 Obama speaks to Jewish voters on Israel

1/29/08 Obama censured for efforts to tout himself as a Christian

1/25/08 Obama plays defence on faith issue

1/17/08 Obama Criticizes His Church's Honoring of 'Anti-Semitic' Farrakhan

1/15/08 Obama's church congregation furious at 'racism' accusations

1/14/08 Obama's 'unashamedly black' church escapes media scrutiny

1/13/08 Obama's Abortion Stance Hurts Blacks, Say Pro-Life Experts

1/11/08 Kerry backs Obama campaign

1/11/08 Pro-Family Groups Blast Obama as 'Extremely Liberal'

1/9/08 Obama Is the Most Pro-Abortion Candidate Ever

1/9/08 Confirmed: Barack Obama Practiced Islam

1/9/08 Obama's church: More about Africa than God?

1/9/08 Pro-Life Activists Accept Senator Obama's Offer to Meet with Them to Discuss Abortion

1/7/08 Pro-Life Activists Shut Down Senator Obama Rally

1/6/08 Clinton argues she is more pro-abortion than Obama

1/3/08 Report Card Grades GOP Presidential Candidates on Family-Value Claims

12/26/07 Two black South Carolina ministers listed by Barack Obama's campaign as endorsing his White House bid say they did no such thing, and at least two others affirmed their support only after being contacted by campaign workers when questions were raised about their endorsements.

12/20/07 She quoted one of her favorite passages in Scripture – where it says in the Epistle of James that "faith without works is dead." She spoke of "the sustaining power of prayer," and how her own faith journey is approaching the half-century mark. She applauded the work of churches in ministering to the sick, as Jesus did.

12/19/07 Obama Gains Ground with Black Christian Leaders

10/25/07 in response to an uproar from gay activists, Democrat Barack Obama's presidential campaign on Wednesday added a gay minister to the lineup for its weekend gospel tour. However, One News Now reports that Obama 'strongly disagrees' with gospel singer on homosexuality.

10/16/07 Obama, the junior senator from Illinois, has made religion a signature part of his campaign through his own public appearances in places where Democrats rarely venture, and a faith-based voter mobilization.

10/8/07 Faith, he said, is "what propels me to do what I do and when I am down it's what lifts me up." The Democratic presidential candidate said God "is with us and he wants us to do the right thing," including breaking down the divisions between Democrats and Republicans and among religions.

9/7/07 a June 23 appearance by Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama at the General Synod of the United Church of Christ is now the subject of a formal complaint filed with the Internal Revenue Service on August 2.