{"id":2501,"date":"2011-12-13T21:33:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T21:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2011\/12\/newt-gingrich-and-religious-conservatives-a-marriage-of-convenience.html"},"modified":"2011-12-13T21:33:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-13T21:33:00","slug":"newt-gingrich-and-religious-conservatives-a-marriage-of-convenience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2011\/12\/newt-gingrich-and-religious-conservatives-a-marriage-of-convenience.html","title":{"rendered":"Newt Gingrich and religious conservatives: A marriage of convenience"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>The latest polls show a surging Newt Gingrich winning substantial support among white evangelical voters, the key voting bloc in the upcoming Iowa Caucuses. Those same voters, who comprise the core of the religious right movement, powered former minister Mike Huckabee to a Corn State upset in 2008. Huckabee\u2019s decision to not run this election cycle created an opening for the rest of the GOP field to now court their support.<br>Read the rest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/on-leadership\/newt-gingrich-and-religious-conservatives-a-marriage-of-convenience\/2011\/12\/13\/gIQArumrrO_story.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest polls show a surging Newt Gingrich winning substantial support among white evangelical voters, the key voting bloc in the upcoming Iowa Caucuses. Those same voters, who comprise the core of the religious right movement, powered former minister Mike Huckabee to a Corn State upset in 2008. 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