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...while leading her among other Protestants, Catholics and other groups. By contrast, the former Southern Baptist minister Mike Huckabee leads Palin by 17 points among evangelicals. Are you sure this comment violates TPM's Terms of Service?

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...Republican Party nomination for president in 2012. But can Gingrich the new Catholic convert outflank ex-Pentecostal Palin and Southern Baptist pastor Huckabee on the party's religious right? Gingrich was a favorite among conservative...

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...backed McCain. A number of influential conservative Christians including Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Convention have pegged Palin as the rising star of the Republican Party's social conservative wing. If McCain loses on...

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...withdrawn). Dobson backed former Southern Baptist preacher and former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee in last year's Republican primary and declared that he could not vote for McCain "as a matter of conscience." But he warmed up...

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...truly blessed. " In an interview with Mr. Luo, Richard Land, who leads the public policy arm of the Southern Baptist Convention, pointed to Ms. Palin's son as something that could be a key signal to evangelicals and other social conservatives...

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...are now willing to give him the space to pursue more moderate and independent voters. Richard Land, a leader of the 18 million-member Southern Baptist convention, said conservatives appreciate McCain's efforts and don't expect him to make...

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...was genuine. Both points were highlighted by Mike Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor and Southern Baptist preacher who beat Romney in the Iowa caucuses and occupied the same political terrain since overtaken by Palin. "While (Palin)...

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...rights, as his running mate. Schaefer Riley adds that Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Convention "is convinced that evangelicals still went to the polls with the abortion issue high on their agenda." Land said that although young...

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...conservatives for 2010 and 2012 and they will look for a standard bearer they can rally around," said Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, the public policy arm of America's...

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