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Born Again or Not?
29 September 2004
Do you believe George W. Bush has been born again? 38% say yes; 43% say no; 19% of the gentle souls responding to MSNBC's insta-poll demur that there's no way to know for sure. Based solely on MSNBC's adjacent story, "Bush -- born again or not?" (which offers little more than Alan Cooperman's substantial, though frustrated, report on failing to nail down the specifics of Bush's faith), we'd have to go with the 19%. But grudgingly. We wonder why it is that some candidates are held to doctrinal litmus tests, while others get to bask in feel-good and good-for-the-polls ambiguity, and then call that ecumencism?

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