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The GOP has campaigned for the last decade on a platform of faith. Strategist Karl Rove famously mobilised millions of Evangelicals in the 2000 and 2004 elections, a faithful who were happy to put their X next to the born-again W.

Now it seems the Republicans have played the faith card a little too often. The one-time outsider and southern baptist minister, Mike Huckabee, is getting big numbers in pre-caucus Iowa polls. Now GOP foot-soldiers, from polemicist hag Ann Coulter to neocon hack Charles Krauthammer, are being despatched to convince GOP caucus-voters that Huckabee isn’t the right man for the job. Of course this may be because Huckabee is a genuine, solid-gold evangelical, rather than a big-business stooge using religion as a way to get Christians to vote against their own interests on faith grounds. As Michelle Goldberg explains: -

Obviously, some right-wing leaders always saw the pious masses as dupes who would vote against their economic interests if they could be convinced they were protecting marriage and Christmas.
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