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...museums, galleries and homes. By comparison, Europe's unprotected churches offer easy pickings. Meanwhile, the one thing that churches have relied upon for centuries to protect them is no longer quite the deterrent it used to be. "The fear of God doesn't exist anymore," laments Father Paolo Picca, pastor of the SS. Salvatore church in Velletri, Italy. "The thieves don't fear anyone, except maybe the police when they come to get them...
McCain's immediate problem in South Carolina is his ally from Iowa and New Hampshire. Mike Huckabee, a former Baptist pastor, has been polling with a double-digit lead among the state's heavily Baptist electorate. For weeks the two men have praised each other talents and made common cause against their well-funded adversary, Mitt Romney, who will try to salvage his wounded campaign next week with a win in Michigan on January 15, four days before the vote in South Carolina. "It's not that we don't recognize that we are competing for the same job," Huckabee...
...helps run the Clemson University Palmetto Poll, says that over the last 20 years, between 60 and 70 percent of the state's likely Republican primary voters have gone to church at least once a week. Of that group, about half are Southern Baptist, the faith of the pastor-turned-politician Huckabee. "When he won in Iowa, that gave him a lot of credibility across the state," says Woodard, pointing to the polls. "It was a tidal wave...
...Just a few weeks ago, none of this would ever have happened. Back then Huckabee was still known as the pastor with the funny tax plan, whom no one really understood and only a handful of reporters followed. Sure, he was polling well in Iowa, went the buzz, but that's where all the evangelicals live. He had no real campaign operation to back him up. He was considered a flash in the pan. He was a curiosity. He wasn't going anywhere. Remember Pat Robertson in 1988? It was just a matter of time...
...Huckabee, a former Baptist pastor, also faces two long weeks before the next state with a significant evangelical population, South Carolina, goes to the polls. The campaign hoped to bridge the gap with his considerable talents as a speaker, both before large crowds and in more intimate settings. "We are going to compete in every state," said Saltsman. "We are going to depend on Gov. Huckabee and his great ability to communicate...