Values Voters

Why the Right's Messaging is Working

Logan Nakyanzi Pollard | Posted 07.30.2008 | Politics

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Logan Nakyanzi Pollard

Why is the young brilliant upstart Obama only ahead by single digits. At least part of the reason is this: John McCain knows how to control his message.

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Pastor Hagee's Armageddon Politics

Chip Berlet | Posted 05.22.2008 | Home

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Chip Berlet

Hagee-style American Christians push to prepare the ground for the second coming of Jesus Christ, a plan that focuses on advancing Israeli interests and that exerts increasing influence on U.S. foreign policy.

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Don't Pass the Torch, Put It Out

Deepak Chopra | Posted 01.14.2008 | Politics

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Deepak Chopra

The image of conservatism, indeed the label itself, hides a shameful reality. Jingoism, war-mongering, fiscal irresponsibility, and nativism go back to the very source.

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Which Side Are You On?

Larry Abrams | Posted 01.03.2008 | Politics

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Larry Abrams

Getting rid of Bush will be good and great thing, but it doesn't make the case for Hillary Clinton. The problem with Hillary is that she doesn't really fit the political moment.

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No Matter Who Loses Iowa, Community Values Win

Sally Kohn | Posted 01.02.2008 | Politics

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Sally Kohn

The majority of voters know we're all in it together, that we all do better when we all do better, that when we work together to help everyone in our nation and our world, we all benefit. This is the message of this election.

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Barack Obama: A Call To Service For America

Craig Newmark | Posted 12.05.2007 | Politics

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Craig Newmark

Our country needs someone to remind us of what our values are, and then we can remind the whole world that the America they believe in is still around.

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Pat and Rudy: Name the Apostate

Nancy L. Cohen | Posted 11.08.2007 | Politics

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Nancy L. Cohen

In this year's Republican contest, the relationship between the front-runners and the religious right is unfolding in ways uncannily similar to the 2000 race.

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Robertson/Giuliani Duo Bids Farewell to Conservative Influence

Lane Hudson | Posted 11.08.2007 | Politics

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Lane Hudson

In an act of desperation, Pat Robertson is willing to throw his values out the window to hop on the train of the perceived front-runner.

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I'm a Values Voter, Too

Bella DePaulo | Posted 11.08.2007 | Politics

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Bella DePaulo

The endorsement of Rudy Giuliani by Pat Robertson is cause for brow-furrowing. Who are these "values voters?"

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An Unholy Alliance: Rudy Giuliani and Pat Robertson

Peter Montgomery | Posted 11.07.2007 | Politics

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Peter Montgomery

Anyone who has watched Robertson's drive for political power and influence cannot be all that surprised by his endorsement of Giuliani.

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New World Order ... American Style?

Malcolm Friedberg | Posted 11.07.2007 | Politics

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Malcolm Friedberg

Under the category of strange bedfellows, could the alliance of evangelicals and environmentalists change the world?

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The Undead

Peter Montgomery | Posted 11.01.2007 | Politics

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Peter Montgomery

Some in the media are declaring the religious right movement dead as a political force. Here's why they're dead wrong.

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Values Voters: Making Pharisees Proud

Hal Donahue | Posted 10.24.2007 | Politics

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Hal Donahue

The Value Voters Summit this past weekend rubbed salt into America's, the military's and my wounds. Is there any hope that things might change?

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Values Not Discussed at the Values Voters Summit

Jim David | Posted 10.24.2007 | Politics

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Jim David

There was no discussion whatsoever of tolerance of other people at the Values Voters summit, and I'm not talking jockstrapped revelers in the Castro, I'm talking about tolerating anyone else but Christians.

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The G.O.P. is Not in Hell, but You Can See It From There

Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 10.23.2007 | Politics

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Robert J. Elisberg

Because the Republican Party blindly chose to follow this base, it is crumbling today. They have no one to blame but themselves.

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The Discreet Charm of the Ruling Class

Deepak Chopra | Posted 10.22.2007 | Politics

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Deepak Chopra

Rulership isn't a legitimate part of democracy. When a governing class develops in a democratic society, it loses contact with the people who elect it.

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Memo to Time: The Far Right Knows the Supreme Court Matters

Peter Montgomery | Posted 10.18.2007 | Politics

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Peter Montgomery

The premise of Time's article is dead wrong: the Court's decisions have a huge impact on Americans' rights and liberties.

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Jesus Must Be Weeping

Richard Belzer | Posted 10.12.2007 | Politics

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Richard Belzer

The use of the term "values voters" to describe the so-called base of the Republicans' so-called party mainly refers to an extremist, ultra-conservative, strain of so-called Christian conservatives.

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Religious Conservatives Take A Back Seat In '08 Elections

The New York Times | LAURIE GOODSTEIN | Posted 10.06.2007 | Home

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AFTER the 2004 elections, religious conservatives were riding high. Newly anointed by pundits as "values voters" -- a more flattering label than "reli...

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"Values Voters" Debate Changes God Bless America Lyrics To Condemn US

TPM | Steve Benen | Posted 09.23.2007 | Home

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GOP Candidates Hold "Values Voter" Debate

CBN | Posted 09.17.2007 | Politics

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Oh my...where do I begin? Let's start with this. This was unlike any debate I've ever seen. This one put the YouTube debate to shame in an Evangelical...

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