• Obama campaign to extend faith outreach

Barack Obama's director of religious affairs, Joshua DuBois, and his evangelical outreach coordinator, Wesley Theological Seminary Professor Shaun Casey, made an unexpected appearance at the Religion Newswriters Association convention late yesterday. They apparently wanted to respond to remarks made at the conference by Amy Sullivan of Time magazine suggesting that the Obama campaign was cutting back on its faith outreach efforts, as well as to polling by John C. Green of the University of Akron suggesting that the evangelical outreach was not paying dividends for Democrats.