I can'rt stand Bill Press.
However in answer to the question about voting for a Mormon, the answer is that I would, if their views were compatable with mine. There is a large Mormon population in Orange County California, and as far as I can tell they are rock solid conservatives.
The Mormon church started with a lie and continues the lie to this day. Namely, " the Gold Tablets" , Smith is supposed to have found. In Utah the church claims the tablets are locked in a vault. The only person to have seen those gold tablets was , Joe Smith himself. Martin Harris took dictation behind
a sheet while Ol' Joe paced the floor behind it "interpreting" them. The first 116 pages of the Book of Mormon are missing. My feeling is Harris went home and told his wife he was fronting $ 5.000.00 to print the book and she got mad and tossed the pages of dictation in the fire. All but 116 pages was recovered. You might say, " well, what's the big deal"? "Just re-dictate the missing pages.
Smith was too foxy for that. Suppose the missing pages still existed and could be compared the new dictation? Smith was flying by the seat of his horny pants in the first place and no way could duplicate the missing pages.
Until the church comes clean I have no respect for this religion.