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When Kerry and his advisers did reach a decision, it was underwhelming: ignore the story and hope it goes away. A few surrogates could defend Kerry in the press, but the campaign itself would maintain radio silence. It was the same strategy they would employ a few months later when...
If the Democratic ticket in November is able to capture a greater share of religious voters than in previous elections, it will be because both Obama and Clinton have rejected their party's traditional fight- or-flight reaction to religion. For decades, the men and women who ran the Democratic...
The Kerry campaign, meanwhile, hired one junior staff aide with no national campaign experience to oversee religious outreach and allowed her one intern - the two had a single telephone between them with which to recruit and contact volunteers.
It didn't take long for religion to become an issue in the campaign. In the spring of 2004, a handful of conservative Catholic bishops began to insist that Kerry, a Roman Catholic, should be denied Communion because of his support for abortion rights. A media frenzy - quickly dubbed the...
The candidate's senior advisers huddled to discuss strategy. Amazingly, despite the fact that many of Kerry's congressional colleagues had faced similar problems with bishops in recent years, no one had anticipated the problem. "It never crossed our minds that this could happen," recalled Christine Stanek, deputy to Kerry...