Black Pastors Backing Bush Are Rare, but Not Alone
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The Bush campaign is making a push for the allegiance of African-American clergy, while the Democrats are motivating them to get their parishioners to the polls.
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Some St. Louis voters weighing uniqueness of a black president versus an affinity for the Clintons.
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President Bush has built relationships over the last four years with a range of religious leaders. The payoff came on Election Day.
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By ELIZABETH A. KENNEDY  DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania - Leaders of the world's 77 million Anglicans spent Thursday locked in discussion about the church's American wing, whose leader is under increasing pressure to reconsider her support for ordaining gays and blessing same-sex couples.
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When the final votes came in, President Bush&#39;s black vote looked like a drop in the bucket amid his national flood, but it looked like a big hole in the bucket for his Democratic opponent.
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The surprise pick for president of the Southern Baptist Convention says he&#039;ll stand up for the denomination&#039;s conservative beliefs &amp;#151; but he&#039;ll do it with a smile.
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The impact of a prominent presidential endorsement often fails to resonate at the polls, but popular talk show host Oprah Winfrey's backing of Sen. Barack Obama could prove to have a more significant effect.
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Four more years of George W. Bush is a daunting prospect for many gay Americans, who see a president increasingly beholden to an evangelical Christian base bent on resisting gay equality.
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Barack Obama may find that for black voters in South Carolina, being black isn't everything.
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As polls suggest gains for President Bush among black voters, Democrats are trying to solidify their bloc.
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A growing number of Protestant evangelists raise a joyful Yes! But the idea is poison to many mainstream pastors
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Soldiers who left behind families in the U.S. are divided between Bush and Kerry, but there is little doubt where most stand. Polls show that two-thirds of them favor Bush.
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More than a century ago, Western missionaries began streaming into Africa looking for souls in need of salvation. Now, conservative American priests say it's their church that needs saving.
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In a U.S. election campaign where presidential candidates from both major parties have talked openly about their Christian faith, some non-Christians feel shut out or turned off.
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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.
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President Bush is getting support from unlikely people in battleground states: some steelworkers who are grateful for temporary tariffs that helped the struggling steel industry begin rebounding.
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With choruses of amens, Christian activists on Friday affirmed that they have the power, with a little prayer and a lot of legwork, to assure that President Bush stays in the White House.