This is the “‘unfriend me now’ election,” said Melinda Henneberger, a longtime political columnist.
Donald Trump
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Catholics help Clinton maintain lead in new poll
Clinton is supported by 51 percent of Catholic. Trump polled at just 40 percent.
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Pope Francis to Donald Trump, in just one year. How did we get here?
Today the pulse of American spiritual life is shifting. There is not just one pulse.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Clinton, Trump trade jokes at Al Smith Catholic fundraiser in New York
The candidates tried their best to inject some humor into the final stretch of a particularly rancorous campaign.
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The man behind the dinner: Alfred E. Smith
Smith was a man who believed that faith in God was not incompatible with faith in the people.
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Election 2016: What would Alexander Hamilton do?
Hamilton was a New Yorker, a lawyer like Hillary Clinton and a business investor like Donald Trump.
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Does your Catholic faith shape your politics, or is it the other way around?
We need more faithful Catholics running for office and more outreach to Catholic voters.
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Trump and Clinton to trade jokes instead of barbs at Al Smith dinner
“You can accomplish a lot more by inviting folks of different political loyalties to an uplifting evening, rather than in closing the door to them.”
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Is there a ‘Trump effect’ on public morality?
U.S. voters—especially evangelicals—appear to have vanquished their inner Puritan and are now far more accepting of sinning politicians.
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How demographics explain both Donald Trump’s rise and why he’ll (probably) lose
While Democratic presidential nominees have become almost invincible among the highly educated urbanites, Republicans have increased their margins among white voters in more rural areas.