The ‘God gap’: Dan Gilgoff on how Barack Obama has narrowed it
By Dan Gilgoff
Obama, by contrast, embraces religion as doggedly as John Kerry avoided it. Recalling his days as a church-based community organizer during a visit to a South Carolina mega-church last year, Obama sounded a lot like the born-again Bush: ‘Through that interaction with the church I accepted Jesus Christ in my life.’ The size of the Obama campaign’s professional religious outreach team rivals Bush in 2004. Obama assiduously grants interviews to evangelical news outlets like Christianity Today, even as the McCain camp mostly ignores Christian media. ‘To a lot of people, Senator Obama is an unknown suit that talks the “evangelical talk”,’ says Tom McClusky, chief lobbyist for the Family Research Council, the Christian Right’s strongest advocacy group in Washington. ‘In the general election, Senator Obama speaking “religion” is going to sound more familiar and natural than Senator McCain.’
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