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Times poll finds Clinton holding on to lead
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterSen. Hillary Rodham Clinton maintains a solid lead in her party's presidential race among Democratic voters nationwide, despite a surge in support since late last year for Sen. Barack Obama, a Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll has found. The Republican...Tags: Polls, Elections, John Edwards, Hillary Clinton, Christianity
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High court says no to new rights for church groups
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterWASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday refused to expand the rights of church groups, turning down appeals in a pair of cases. In the first case, the justices declined to hear a free-speech claim from an evangelical minister in Northern...Tags: Freedom of Religion, Health, Judges, Justice System, Christianity
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Romney's JFK moment
Washington is atwitter. Mitt Romney will give a "JFK speech" accounting for his Mormonism the way then-Sen. John F. Kennedy dealt with his Catholicism. Political junkies just love Kennedy nostalgia. So profound is the Kennedy cargo cult that Michael...Tags: Religious Leaders, Political Candidates, John F. Kennedy, Cults and Sects, Elections
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A tale of two speeches
Hillary Clinton and Mitt Romney were supposed to leave New Hampshire today as the prohibitive favorites to win their parties' presidential nominations. It didn't happen that way. Romney has now lost twice, and Clinton, who ran third in Iowa, found New...Tags: Minority Groups, Ronald Reagan, John F. Kennedy, Elections, American Express Company
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Deciphering the Catholic 'swing vote'
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and her advisors have referred to next week's Texas and Ohio primaries as her campaign's "firewall" against Sen. Barack Obama's surging popularity. In both states, the New York senator's barrier is built on the same...Tags: Minority Groups, Political Candidates, Polls, Elections, Health Treatments
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Qingdao, China -- a six-pack of surprises
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterQingdao, China I had been trying to learn Mandarin at Beijing Language and Culture University and still had about 3,500 Chinese characters to memorize with two months left in the semester. It was going slowly and, often, not well. So, taking a note...Tags: Star Sailing, Television, Fishing, Entertainment, Hotel and Accommodation Industry
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Evangelical flocks on their own at the polls
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersA fundamental shift is transforming the religious right, long a force in presidential politics, as aging evangelical leaders split on the 2008 race and a new generation of pastors turns away from politics altogether. The result, in the short term,...Tags: Gays and Lesbians, Ronald Reagan, Elections, Christianity, Barack Obama
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Religious progressives, the next generation
DIANE WINSTON, Knight chair in media and religion at USC, can be reached at dhwinston @gmail.com.WITH THE PASSING of Coretta Scott King comes a hard question: What new vision will stir religious progressives? The revolutionary potential of religious ideas was certainly evident in the civil rights movement. Martin Luther King Jr.'s vision —...Tags: Death, University of Southern California, Martin Luther King Jr., Family, Judaism
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McCain doesn't put his faith out front
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterNot long after he became the presumed Republican nominee, John McCain flew to New Orleans to face a skeptical audience -- conservative leaders of the Council for National Policy. A questioner zeroed in on a topic McCain rarely addresses on the campaign...Tags: Protestant Convention, Cindy McCain, Elections, Freedom of Religion, Hillary Clinton
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Catholics then, Muslims now
MATTHEW COBB, a life sciences faculty member at the University of Manchester, is author of "Generation: The 17th Century Scientists Who Unraveled the Secrets of Sex, Life and Growth."DOES THIS SOUND familiar? Disaffected and reckless young British men with genuine grievances, fueled by religious fanaticism, foolishly imagined that a terrible act would advance their cause. Instead, their conspiracy led to a growing suspicion of their...Tags: Death, Unrest, Conflicts and War, September 11, 2001 Attacks, United Kingdom, George W. Bush
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The voters no one can take for granted
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterWhen President Bush campaigned for reelection three years ago, this community near Denver was a promising territory: a fast-growing collection of cul-de-sacs and nearly identical homes, where thousands of young families seemed open to Republican ideas....Tags: Minority Groups, Polls, Elections, Political Development, U.S. Elections
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Red and blue in the black
Any illusions that cultural arguments won't divide the country again in 2008 were probably dispelled in the recent New Hampshire debates when all of the Democratic presidential candidates said they would allow gays to serve openly in the military and...Tags: Political Candidates, Gays and Lesbians, Minority Groups, Michael Bloomberg, Illnesses
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