"President Obama is "ramping up his 'God talk' for the re-election campaign," says political scientist John Green, senior fellow at the Pew Forum for Religion & Public Life." "These kinds of God mentions won't move the dial for conservative evangelicals but, Green says, they could be just right for ambivalent voters who "don't want a hard-edged faith shaping national politics." http://content.usatoday.com/communi...1/09/obama-rick-perry-evangelical-christian/1 It also seems to irritate some fundamentalist atheists. But, my question is, do you think this will work to sway moderate uncommitted voters? I'm a conservative and an atheist and I simply find it distasteful. It doesn't sway me but I'm not uncommitted in a political sense. I don't think for a minute Barack Obama believes there is a being greater than Barack. What do you think?
I suspect it would be a subconscious thing. Few people will be explicitly counting how often a candidate says "God" but most American voters will get a positive impression of any politician giving a general Christian vibe.
He'd IMMEDIATELY have my vote if that were true. I'd pick him over Ron Paul or even Ayn Rand. Semi-consciously he thinks there is something greater than him, it just hasn't congealed in his mind as "God".
It's an American political dog-whistle. In the UK, the opposite applies, hence when saint Tony of the B-liars was running for election, his press secretary's famous quote: "We don't do God!"
