Democratic Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama have hired strategists to focus on reaching religious voters. Obama’s campaign holds a weekly conference call with key supporters in early primary and caucus states whose role is to spread the candidate’s message to religious leaders and opinion-makers and report their concerns to the campaign.

This time around, the Democrats are playing the religion card, and the Republican frontrunners' religions are being questioned. 

• Religion is hot topic in 2008 races

Theological Category

• Church & State