MANCHESTER, N.H. – First-in-the-nation primary day finally arrived Tuesday, as voters in the Granite State's largest city hit the polls while campaign volunteers made a last-ditch pitches in an effort to bring out every last potential supporter.
"This one is so undecided, I don't even know who I'm going to vote for," Jordyn Hoar, a Manchester resident participating in her first primary, said as she approached her polling place on Elm Street. "It is a lot more intense than other elections."
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama focused on religious pluralism during the past several days, bookending the annual National Prayer Breakfast Thursday in the nation's capital with a visit to a mosque Wednesday and a column discussing religious freedom in America published Saturday.
In the column, signed by the president and published by Religion News Service, Obama revealed his longing to improve relations between Muslim Americans and their neighbors. He called on the country to "embrace our common humanity" – asking Americans not to target Islam's believers and asking Muslims to publicly condemn extremist ideologies and terrorism.
