Finding Truth in the “Would Not Vote for a Mormon” Polls

RomneyExperience.com ^ | 7/26/07

[tantiboh]

Democratic political consultant Mark Mellman has a very good piece up today at The Hill on the baffling and illegitimate opposition among voters to Mitt Romney due to his religion. I liked his closing paragraphs:

In July of 1958, 24 percent of respondents told Gallup they would not vote for a Catholic for president, almost identical to Gallup’s reading on Mormons today. Two years later, John F. Kennedy became the first Catholic to assume the oath of office. Within eight months, the number refusing to vote for a Catholic was cut almost in half.

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Mellman also discusses an interesting poll he helped construct, in which the pollsters asked half of their respondents whether they would support a candidate with certain characteristics, and asked the other half about another candidate with the exact same characteristics, with one difference. The first candidate was Baptist, the second candidate was Mormon. The Baptist had a huge advantage over the Mormon candidate, by about 20 points.

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However, more recent polls have attempted to fix the anonymity problem. A recent Time Magazine poll (read the original report here), for example, got to the heart of the question by asking respondents if they are less likely to vote for Mitt Romney specifically because he is a Mormon. The result is not as bad as some reporting on the poll has suggested. For example, while 30% of Republicans say they are less likely to vote for Romney because of his religion, fully 15% of other Republicans say that characteristic makes them more likely to vote for him. And while many have reported the finding that 23% of Republicans are “worried” by Romney’s Mormonism, the more important (but less-reported) number is that 73% say they hold no such reservations...

[restornu]

In his reasoning for not voting for Mitt the big reason, was Mitt was LDS, and because he has contempt for the faith he can’t trust LDS!

[Elsie]

Oh please he has stated it over and over on these threads and other threads his contempt for the Church this is a fact.
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[restornu]

The LDS organization has no Scriptural basis for the things they do in their Temple.

This is a fact!

I have posted it on this thread and I consider this harassment and spamming in a recycle way.

You need to know more search the scriptures your self!

[tantiboh]

~”It apparently takes a direct invervention by GOD Himself to get this simple feat accomplished!!”~

Do you really think taunting is going to garner cooperation?

[restornu]

Taunting certainly is not part of the Catholic theology