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We’ve been writing so much about white evangelical Protestants recently that you might be forgiven for thinking that they’re the only religious subgroup that politicians (at least, the candidates…

Amid the tweets about Herman Cain’s YouTube ads, suggestions for Halloween costumes and up-to-the-minute notes about the Occupy protests across the country, there’s been a lot of discussion in my…

Last July, only 4 in 10 Americans could correctly identify Mitt Romney’s religion. Today, a new survey shows that Americans are no more informed about Romney’s Mormon faith than they were three mo…

Despite continued media attention to Mitt Romney’s faith, only about four in ten Americans correctly identify him as Mormon, a PRRI survey finds.

Earlier this week, Eugene Robinson wrote an op-ed for the Washington Post, lambasting the “neo-Luddites” (read: politicians) who he says are turning the GOP into an anti-science party. He zeroes i…

What does it mean to be a good Catholic? According to a new survey, Catholics in America: Persistence and change in the Catholic landscape, 86% of U.S. Catholics don’t think that following the Vatic…

At this point, there doesn’t seem to be much about Mitt Romney’s Mormon background that hasn’t been exhaustively picked over by the media. The same is true to a lesser extent of Rick Perry and M…

Earlier this week, Herman Cain thoroughly mystified bloggers and pundits alike when, during an interview with Piers Morgan of CNN, he said that if a woman became pregnant as a result of rape, the situ…

After a morning of uncertain and contradictory news, Libyan former dictator Moammar Gaddafi was confirmed dead.  According to Abdulrahman Busin, the military liaison to Libya’s transitional governm…

In the aftermath of last night’s GOP debate in Nevada, commentators noted that the audience seemed unusually friendly to Romney.  In one instance the audience loudly expressed their disapproval for…