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[Fred Thompson] and [Sam Brownback] got off easy compared with [Romney], who has long been in the cross hairs of the [Mike Huckabee] campaign, which runs ads identifying its candidate as "a Christian leader." Huckabee avoids explicit pokes at Romney's faith while asking provocative questions about Mormonism, rarely distancing himself from backers who suggest that evangelicals could do better than to vote for a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Huckabee's Iowa supporters openly suggest at campaign events that Romney's "going to be acting on an anti- Christian faith as the basis of his decision-making." The Arkansan's Iowa campaign co-chairman, Daniel Carroll, says Christians prefer his man over Romney because Huckabee "prays to the God of the Bible." Huckabee simply suggests that God prefers him. After being introduced in late November by Jerry Falwell Jr. as a candidate who "believes like we do," Huckabee told a crowd at Falwell's Liberty University, "There's only one explanation for [my surge], and it's not a human one. It's the same power that helped a little boy with two fish and five loaves feed a crowd of 5,000 people."
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Playing the God Card
Mitt Romney achieved a rare political feat when he delivered his "Don't let my Mormonism cost me this election" speech. With barely 20 minutes of disjointed rhetoric about the role of faith in public life, the former Ma...
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