{"id":2510,"date":"2011-12-09T18:26:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T18:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2011\/12\/why-some-evangelicals-back-thrice-wed-gingrich.html"},"modified":"2011-12-09T18:26:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T18:26:00","slug":"why-some-evangelicals-back-thrice-wed-gingrich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2011\/12\/why-some-evangelicals-back-thrice-wed-gingrich.html","title":{"rendered":"Why Some Evangelicals Back Thrice-Wed Gingrich"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

One of the puzzles of the Republican presidential campaign is Newt Gingrich\u2019s appeal to religious conservatives. The irony is that Gingrich, a Catholic convert who has had three marriages, is outperforming Romney, a lifelong Mormon and family man. In fact, less than a month before the Iowa caucuses, the former speaker of the House has three times the support of evangelicals in that state that Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, does.<\/p>\n

Now Romney is trying to mix it up. In an ad airing across Iowa, the former governor of Massachusetts describes himself as a man of \u201csteadiness and constancy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think you\u2019re going to find somebody who has more of those attributes than I do,\u201d Romney says in a clip from one of his debates. \u201cI\u2019ve been married to the same woman for 25 \u2014 excuse me, I\u2019ll get in trouble \u2014 for 42 years. I\u2019ve been in the same church my entire life.\u201d
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One of the puzzles of the Republican presidential campaign is Newt Gingrich\u2019s appeal to religious conservatives. The irony is that Gingrich, a Catholic convert who has had three marriages, is outperforming Romney, a lifelong Mormon and family man. In fact, less than a month before the Iowa caucuses, the former speaker of the House has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2251,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nWhy Some Evangelicals Back Thrice-Wed Gingrich<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"One of the puzzles of the Republican presidential campaign is Newt Gingrich's appeal to religious conservatives. 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