Presidential Race

Results released by the Christian polling outfit, Barna Group, shows that Sen. John McCain has failed to hold on to a critical part of the Republican base: born-again evangelical Christians. Even with Gov. Sarah Palin on the ticket, support from the key constituency has floundered compared to Bush’s numbers in 2004.

Meanwhile, independent groups are hitting the airwaves on Christian talk radio with ads featuring Sen. Barack Obama talking about his faith and prominent “pro-lifers” explaining — and supporting — Obama’s position on abortion.

A fresh North Dakota poll released Thursday shows Barack Obama leading John McCain by 3 points, 44 percent to 41 percent, within the poll’s 4.4 percent margin of error. A poll released Monday by The Forum newspaper had Obama and McCain in a statistical dead heat, Obama at 45 percent and McCain at 43 percent.
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The end of the primaries are finally upon us, and it will all be over soon… unless it’s not. For the next eight hours, it’s nothing but waiting for the polls to close and watching the superdelegates trickle in. In the meantime, keep yourself amused with a glance around the blogosphere.

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From our sister site, Iowa Independent, their latest power rankings have been released.  This time, their focus is on the Republican presidential candidates.

Rankings and analysis after break

From our sister site in Iowa, the Iowa Independent asks the question:

“If the caucuses were held tonight, what would be the results?”

Results are after the jump, and Republican candidate rankings will be out later this week…