With Rick Santorum out of the race, evangelicals may have nowhere else to turn but Mitt Romney, but their whole-hearted support will not come without conditions, some leaders warned.

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Evangelicals Move to Support Romney

In January 2002, prominent Catholics from around the world gathered in Rome to celebrate the Spanish priest who founded one of the church’s most conservative and devout groups, Opus Dei. The event drew cardinals, bishops and other powerful Vatican officials. Among those invited to speak was a future presidential candidate: Rick Santorum, whose faith had become so essential to his politics that on federal documents he listed the trip, paid for by an Opus Dei foundation, as part of his official duties as a U.S. senator from Pennsylvania. Read full article > >

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Rick Santorum’s journey to devout Catholicism, view of religion in governance

Early exit poll results show that 8 in every 10 voters in Alabama and Mississippi call themselves white, evangelical Christians, and more than 4 of whom say they'll back candidates who share their religious beliefs. While this is of course good news for Santorum, the numbers don't bode as well for Romney, who lost primaries this year in five states where evangelicals accounted for more than 50 percent of the voters. The demographics of Mississippi and Alabama resemble those in other Southern states where both Santorum and Gingrich have done better than Romney.

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Evangelicals Dominate Mississippi, Alabama Exit Polls

Early exit poll results show that 8 in every 10 voters in Alabama and Mississippi call themselves white, evangelical Christians, and more than 4 of whom say they'll back candidates who share their religious beliefs. While this is of course good news for Santorum, the numbers don't bode as well for Romney, who lost primaries this year in five states where evangelicals accounted for more than 50 percent of the voters. The demographics of Mississippi and Alabama resemble those in other Southern states where both Santorum and Gingrich have done better than Romney.

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Evangelicals Dominate Mississippi, Alabama Exit Polls

Early exit poll results show that 8 in every 10 voters in Alabama and Mississippi call themselves white, evangelical Christians, and more than 4 of whom say they'll back candidates who share their religious beliefs. While this is of course good news for Santorum, the numbers don't bode as well for Romney, who lost primaries this year in five states where evangelicals accounted for more than 50 percent of the voters. The demographics of Mississippi and Alabama resemble those in other Southern states where both Santorum and Gingrich have done better than Romney.

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Evangelicals Dominate Mississippi, Alabama Exit Polls

CUMMING, Ga. — The cavernous sanctuary at First Redeemer Church was packed on a recent Sunday when presidential hopeful Rick Santorum took the stage to declare religious freedom in jeopardy. A week later, church members stood to applaud again when Newt Gingrich paid a visit, speaking of an assault by the “secular left” on people of faith. Read full article > >

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As Super Tuesday approaches, GOP candidates focus on evangelical voters

CUMMING, Ga. — The cavernous sanctuary at First Redeemer Church was packed on a recent Sunday when presidential hopeful Rick Santorum took the stage to declare religious freedom in jeopardy. A week later, church members stood to applaud again when Newt Gingrich paid a visit, speaking of an assault by the “secular left” on people of faith. Read full article > >

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As Super Tuesday approaches, GOP candidates focus on evangelical voters

Mitt Romney ’s problems with conservatives and evangelical voters are well-established, but he’s also got a significant — if less readily apparent — issue with less-affluent voters. And it’s a problem that could matter quite a bit in the next few weeks. Read full article > >

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Mitt Romney’s working class problem

1 . Working-class whites are more religious than upper-class whites. This is a pervasive misconception encouraged by liberals who conflate the religious right with the working class, and by conservative evangelicals who inveigh against the godless ruling class. Read full article > >

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Five myths about white people

Gingrich took Tea Partiers and evangelicals.

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Romney Won Almost Every Demographic

BOCA RATON, Fla. — GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum , campaigning under the banner “faith, family and freedom,” has made his life story central to his political identity. He often mentions his seven kids — one of whom is gravely ill — a son who died hours after birth, and his wife of two decades as proof that he not only preaches conservative values but lives by them in his daily life. Read full article > >

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Daughter’s illness is quandary for Santorum

The attempt by Newt Gingrich to cover his tracks on climate change has been one of the shabbier little episodes of the 2012 presidential campaign. His forthcoming sequel to “A Contract with the Earth” was to feature a chapter by Katharine Hayhoe, a young professor of atmospheric sciences at Texas Tech University. Hayhoe is a scientist, an evangelical Christian and a moderate voice warning of climate disruption. Read full article > >

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Climate and the culture war

Rick Santorum said the vote of support by evangelical leaders on Saturday should persuade Republicans in South Carolina that he deserves the alternative to Mitt Romney.

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The Caucus: Santorum and Gingrich Scramble for the Conservative Vote

The political world is once again buzzing about evangelical Christians. Former senator Rick Santorum ’s near-victory in the Iowa caucuses and his ascent in the ranks of Republican presidential contenders have fueled this new fervor, which is leading to the same tired debates and conversations that we’ve heard about evangelicals for a generation now. Read full article > >

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God’s quarterbacks: What Tebow and Roethlisberger reveal about evangelical politics

The political world is once again buzzing about evangelical Christians. Former senator Rick Santorum ’s near-victory in the Iowa caucuses and his ascent in the ranks of Republican presidential contenders have fueled this new fervor, which is leading to the same tired debates and conversations that we’ve heard about evangelicals for a generation now. Read full article > >

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God’s quarterbacks: What Tebow and Roethlisberger reveal about evangelical politics