So Jim, do you think the Mormons ought to reciprocate and quit supporting christian conservatives? Or should they keep supporting those who stab them in the back?
I’m not Jim, but if Mormons want to only vote for Mormons, they will only win elections in Utah and Idaho. Neither State has enough electoral votes to really impact the Presidential election anyway.
But I guess it’s great that you think they are such a powerful 1.5% of the population.
I don’t know but I’m not voting for this dirty RINO bastard, regardless of religion:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OQoBxZZPqU&feature=player_embedded
Mormons already exercise their religious prerogatives on voting primarily ONLY for Mormon candidates; yet we don't have the "bigot patrol" out excoriating them for that.
I actually support their right to weigh their faith into their voting decisions; therefore, I don't call Mormons "bigots" for their voting patterns.
How do we know that Mormons ALREADY only vote 88-94% pro-Mormon when given a choice?
Per this 2008 exit poll data:
Exit poll data from Tuesday's primary elections showed Utah Republican voters cared more about presidential candidates' PERSONAL QUALITIES THAN THEIR POSITIONS ON THE ISSUES, the OPPOSITE OF THE NATIONAL TREND of the national trend in Super Tuesday voting.
Source: Romney's exit disappoints strong Utah following (Feb. 7, 2008 AP/Salt Lake Tribune)
Hence, it was rather interesting that 94-95% of Mormons in both Utah and Nevada voted for Romney in 2008:
* 2008 (Utah) "While the former Massachusetts governor’s faith has been a flashpoint in his campaign, it was perhaps one of his strongest assets in Utah, where more than 60% of the state’s residents share his faith. Exit poll data shows Romney swept voters across the board, handily winning every social, economic, and generational demographic in the state, as well as 94% of all Mormon voters." (Susan Davis, Wall Street Journal, Feb. 5, 2008, Romney Wins Utah With Help From Friends [Note: The Wall Street Journal was citing MSNBC.msn.com...]
* 2008 (Nevada) Per the Mormon Church, Mormons make up about 7.5% of Nevada's population. But according to the entrance polls so far, a whopping 25% of those who participated in the state's GOP caucuses are Mormons. And 94% of those people went with Romney.
Source: Nevada Mormons turn out for Romney (Mark Murray, MSNBC, Jan. 19, 2008)
* 2008 (Arizona and Nevada): In the Nevada Republican caucuses last cycle, entrance polls found that a quarter — 26 percent — of participants were Mormons and 95 percent supported Romney. He won the state handily. The numbers were also impressive in Arizona, where exit polls showed 11 percent of voters were Mormon and 88 percent of them voted for Romney...
Source: Mitt Romney’s Mormon firewall
* 2012 (Nevada): According to exit polls conducted for the Associated Press, nine of 10 Mormon voters in Nevada supported Romney.
Source: Paul seeks to attract Mormon voters in Nevada GOP contest
If Christians voted the way Mormons vote --
-- the way others often accuse them of --
--"somebody who believes like me" --
--they would be BBQ'd in the MSM ... and even on FR.
Yet when Mormons vote...
...88% for the Mormon (Arizona, 2008)
...94% for the Mormon (Nevada and Utah, 2008)
...90% for the Mormon (Nevada, 2012)...
...they get a free pass from those who love to pound others who "weigh too much" "religion" into their decision-making.
Sounds like open religious hypocrisy to me.