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Faith in the 2012 ElectionReligion emerged as an important issue in the 2012 presidential campaign. The personal religious identity of President Barack Obama and the Republican candidate, Governor...
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Commentary on the Election
This collection gathers together key statements from politicians, campaign officials, journalists, and others as they analyze and react to the role of religion in the 2012...
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February 28, 2006
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William A. Galston, Brookings Institution, on Romney's Choice of a Catholic Running Mate as an Example of America's New Religious/Political Divisions
August 14, 2012
[In choosing a running mate who is Catholic, Romney showed that he is not worried about damaging support among Protestants,] especially those who don't think of themselves as evangelicals. I'm not saying that Romney thought he could afford to take them for granted. But clearly he felt that he could reach out in another direction. [...] The old lines between Catholics and Protestants which were dominant in our politics as recently as the 1960 election have been replaced by new lines of division, not between denominations but within them. So you now have a coalition of evangelical protestants and traditionalist Catholics, and Orthodox Jews as well. ... It is a very important fact about American politics today.
William A. Galston
William A. Galston holds the Ezra Zilkha Chair in the Brookings Institution’s Governance Studies Program, where he serves as a Senior Fellow. He is also College Park Professor at the University of Maryland. Prior to January 2006 he was Saul Stern...
William A. Galston
William A. Galston holds the Ezra Zilkha Chair in the Brookings Institution’s Governance Studies Program, where he serves as a Senior Fellow. He is also College Park Professor at the University of Maryland. Prior to January 2006 he was Saul Stern...