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Opinion: Faith tints Palin's politics

September 15, 2008 By STEPHEN SPECTOR Stephen Spector, chairman of the English department at Stony Brook University, is the author of the forthcoming "Evangelicals and Israel: The Story of American Christian Zionism."

John McCain just didn't get it at first. He tried to win the trust of white evangelicals during this presidential run, but he was clumsy.

Admittedly, he had a big job in front of him after having called Pat Robertson and the late Jerry Falwell "agents of intolerance" eight years ago. In itself, that insult wasn't politically fatal - many evangelicals are embarrassed by Robertson's often-intolerant...

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