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HBO @ Noon: Christians Not Voting For Christians

Enter Mike Huckabee. When I heard that a former Baptist pastor was running for president on the Republican ticket, I shrugged it off. The extreme religious don’t have a shot at these sorts of things, I reasoned. He’d just be another anti-abortion, pro-marriage amendment middle class white guy, no different from any other super religious candidate. Then he went and won Iowa. Reading over Huckabee’s Web site (www.mikehuckabee.com) almost had me sold on the guy. As a former governor of Arkansas, he does seem to have good experience — and we know that Arkansas governors make good presidents — and he has proved himself a serious candidate.
But politics aside, I can’t, as a Christian, bring myself to vote for another Christian for president of the United States/Savannah Cummings, UI Argonaut. More here.

Question: Are you more/less likely to vote for a prez wannabe with religious convictions?



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D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.