Posted on 11/20/2006 8:24:45 AM PST by areafiftyone
Mitt Romney (R) begins the 2008 campaign season in fourth place among those seeking the GOP Presidential nomination, trailing Rudy Giuliani, John McCain, and Condoleezza Rice. While many Republican insiders believe the Massachusetts Governor could become an attractive candidate to the party's social conservatives, a Rasmussen Reports survey finds that Romney's faith may initially be more of a hindrance than a help.
Forty-three percent (43%) of American voters say they would never even consider voting for a Mormon Presidential candidate. Only 38% say they would consider casting such a vote while 19% are not sure. Half (53%) of all Evangelical Christians say that they would not consider voting for a Mormon candidate.
Overall, 29% of Likely Voters have a favorable opinion of Romney while 30% hold an unfavorable view. Most of those opinions are less than firmly held. Ten percent (10%) hold a very favorable opinion while 11% have a very unfavorable assessment. Among the 41% with no opinion of Romney, just 27% say they would consider voting for a Mormon.
It is possible, of course, that these perceptions might change as Romney becomes better known and his faith is considered in the context of his campaign. Currently, just 19% of Likely Voters are able to identify Romney as the Mormon candidate from a list of six potential Presidential candidates.
The response to a theoretical Mormon candidate is far less negative than the response to a Muslim candidate or an atheist. Sixty-one percent (61%) of Likely Voters say they would never consider voting for a Muslim Presidential candidate. Sixty percent (60%) say the same about an atheist.
The Rasmussen Reports survey found that 35% say that a candidate's faith and religious beliefs are very important in their voting decision. Another 27% say faith and religious beliefs are somewhat important. Ninety-two percent (92%) of Evangelical Christian voters consider a candidate's faith and beliefs important.
On the partisan front, 78% of Republicans say that a candidate's faith is an important consideration, a view shared by 55% of Democrats. However, there is also a significant divide on this topic within the Democratic Party. Among minority Democrats, 71% consider faith and religious beliefs an important consideration for voting. Just 44% of white Democrats agree.
The national telephone survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted by Rasmussen Reports November 16-17, 2006. The margin of sampling error for the survey is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence.
Protestants don't believe in transubstantiation which is why we don't take Communion in Catholic churches.
Politically, I don't care if someone is Mormon.
Note: Someone mentioned "sheep stealing" earlier regarding the Mormons. I find this interesting because my neighbor is Mormon and he's been very good to invite me to his church. The elders even came by one day. In the non-Mormon church, this is considered rude and is referred to as "sheep stealing". If your neighbor is a good Baptist, you don't invite him to the Methodist church in order to get him to join your church.
Well, except for the Episcopals. Everyone is trying to steal them these days.
Yes as to both questions.
Genetically proven, in fact. (There is an associated marker on the "Y" Chromosome.) Considered a terrible apostate.
Last name basically translates to "True Priest."
very learned and complete KAKA.....
You can twist the scriptures to mean anything you want them to...but they still mean what they say and not what you wished they said.
If you ever wnat to know what a particular verse of scripture means, go to the source. If God is the author ASK HIM what it means.
And if you've ever wondered why Mormon missionaries are so successful, its because they never ask people to believe them, but to go to the source....GOD .....same answer.
Just ask God.........
"The Evangelicals are the base of the Republican party. I spent a few years working alongside people from other religions on social issues. I was amazed at how visceral the antipathy is toward Mormons among some groups, including those I worked with."
And this is my ONLY point here.
People can argue about right and wrong and theology all day long, when it comes down to the fact that Romney won't fly for this reason.
I'm with you, I'm thinking third party. You can't push tax cuts while nationalizing health care. Will the GOP being running on 'vote for us and we will only raise your taxes 16% to pay for health care while the RATS want to raise taxes 21%'?
"Protestants don't believe in transubstantiation."
Except for Anglicans.
Does it mean from the tribe of Levi?
I would vote for Romney if he ended up being the Republican nominee. But I don't welcome his candidacy, because I don't think he can win, and I think his candidacy will invite attacks on my church. Case in point, this thread. And freepers are politically aligned with Mormons.
Interestingly, our Mormon governer here in Utah has already gotten on McCain's bandwagon.
I don't think Romney is for nationalizing health care. I think his plan in MA consisted of requiring everyone to have health insurance.
"Protestants don't believe in transubstantiation which is why we don't take Communion in Catholic churches. "
The precise reason you dont take Communion in a Catholic church is that you need to go through Catholic baptism and first Communion. Whatever your beliefs, you do not partake without initiation. We believe in one catholic and apostolic church, as the Nicene creed has it.
The idea that it is 'rude' to invite someone to your own church is a bizarre one to me. One can always decline such invitations.
Of course there's a difference. He didn't have the government take over health care.
No, that's "Levison" or the like.
The Kohain are more often "Cohen" "Katz" or the like.
Kohain are paternal descentants of Aaron.
Leonard Nemoy is a Kohain. (That's where the Vulcan hand symbol comes from.)
If women ever met you I can see how they would be turned off by republicans and vote dem. You are a disgrace to your gender.
I would not count NY as lost to Hillary.
Nor do I believe Rudy would carry every state's primary. However, I don't see anyone beating him in the Midwest, East, West and parts of the South. Particularly the candidates which have been mentioned. I would not declare any state impossible for him to win particularly since there will probably be at least three "conservatives" splitting the vote.
I would like to point out for the record that the 60% who would never vote for an atheist is why we have so much religious fakery in D.C. today. Does anybody believe all these folks are religious? Heck no. They know that they can't win if they don't pretend to be religious. For me that is absolutely worse than reality. We should allow atheists to run and win on issues. However, if an atheist, small government conservative who was for 2nd amendment, low taxes, border security, strong military went out and said they were an atheist too, they would lose to a big government liberal who went to church even if they didn't mean it. That's a problem I think.
While voting for Romney vs Hillary is a no brainer I don't see him winning the nomination. Though it is true that I also see no one having a majority of delegates before the convention.
Fascinating. Aaron was also a Levite, if I'm not mistaken. But Aaron and his descendants were distinct among the Levites, and had greater authority.
We Mormons have two categories of "priesthood," Aaronic and Melchizedek. We believe that John the Baptist held the Aaronic priesthood, and thus had authority to baptize Jesus. I'm not sure whether that belief is unique to us, or not.
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