Christie led among conservatives and Born-Again Christians, and only trailed Romney by a few points among the few moderate Republicans.

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Born-again Christians, the two keep bibles in the office, and print John 3:16 on the bottom of each shopping bag.

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About 40 percent of the study subjects were born-again Christians, she notes.

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Activists do not much like born-again Christians, who take a dim view of the sort of sex lives that help to spread HIV.

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Mr Santorum was the clear favourite of those who described themselves as evangelical or born-again Christians (Mr Romney was the favourite of the rest).

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In 1988, the American doctor Randolph Byrd recruited some born-again Christians to pray outside a San Francisco coronary care unit for a randomized group among 400 patients.

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The backlash was especially strong among born-again Christians.

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It appears the Huckabee vote is the born-again vote, with the poll suggesting his support among Iowans who say they are born-again or evangelical Christians is nearly 30 points higher than among nonevangelicals.

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In 1976, like many other fundamentalist Christians, the Bachmanns supported Jimmy Carter, a born-again Baptist.

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