The 20th Century Fox biblical epic, directed by Ridley Scott ("Gladiator") and starring Christian Bale as Moses, did not rely on the same base of Christian moviegoers that other religious dramas -- notably "God's Not Dead" and "Noah" -- tapped to find success this year at the U.S. and Canadian box office.
Rick Santorum's appeal among the large base of evangelical Christians is growing, and a group supporting Mitt Romney is attacking Mr. Gingrich in television ads.
How interesting that this president's right-wing base of evangelical Christians, who fervently extol "intelligent design," would countenance policies that are Darwinian in their "survival of the fittest" outcomes.
At the very least, Mr. McCain's victory has helped him slow the rise of one of his main rivals, Mike Huckabee of Arkansas, who had looked to South Carolina, with its sizable base of evangelical Christians, as fertile ground for his appeal.
White Christians dominate in the GOP - Robert Jones: "Republicans' key base of white Christians is well represented across the Super Tuesday states.
Some even queried how this critique would play with Trump's base of "evangelical Christians," revealing their ignorance about the nuances of religious politics.
But in those four states -- Michigan, Ohio, Illinois and Wisconsin -- Santorum demonstrated an inability to expand his base of evangelical Christians by attracting support from upper-income, more moderate and less religious Republicans.
That has raised the stakes for Mr. McCain in Wisconsin, where Mr. Huckabee's base of conservative Christian support is smaller.
There's a long history of Republican presidents stringing along the hungry base of the Christian right and not giving them a big prize before they are needed again.
Morales, a former television comedian with an important base of conservative Christian support, earlier this year became embroiled in a bitter spat with the United Nations when a U.N.-backed anti-corruption body in Guatemala tried to impeach him.
