Posted on 06/28/2015 11:19:56 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Being a Mormon in politics has never been easy. Since Gallup began tracking in 1968, about one in five voters say they wouldn't vote for a "generally well-qualified person for president who happened to be Mormon." But now, neither is being an evangelical Christian.
A Gallup poll released Monday found 81 percent of Americans said they would vote for a Mormon presidential candidate (little-changed from 80 percent in 2012), while only 73 percent said they would vote for an evangelical Christian presidential candidate. It follows an April Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll that found more people would be comfortable with a gay or lesbian president than an evangelical one.
These results are surprising -- both because of persistent questions about whether people would vote for Mitt Romney in 2008 and 2012 (remember the "Mormon Problem/Question"), and also if you follow public opinion of religious groups that show evangelicals more popular than Mormons.
A July 2014 Pew poll ranked religious groups according to how positively they were rated, by political affiliation. Evangelical Christians were the top-rated group for Republicans, while Mormons were the lowest-rated group for Democrats (they were each in the middle of the pack for Democrats and Republicans, respectability). So what happened?
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Jimmy Carter ruined it for Christian candidates with his utter failure as president........................Yet ozero hasn’t done the same for mooselimbs, as long as they slap a “D” behind their names.
Stupid premise, push polled and statistics are wildy off....
Aren’t they all?
Ther you go again!
unable to defend heresy!
“I contend we are both atheists, I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.”
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There is your confusion
Same dumb writers....
The line between Evangelical and Mainstream may not be that sharp and clear.
Plenty of presidents before Jimmy Carter may have qualified as "Evangelical" in some sense of the word.
Tis quite simple: America's voters already more prone to vote for Dems & their cult of liberalism...see...
Loserville (The Triumph of the Cult of Liberalism)
Tis not surprising many would vote for OTHER cultists as well!
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