“I just don’t think they go and vote for Methodist Hitlery because their other choice is a Mormon.”
No doubt that the unbridled perception of an evil hilldabeast
will overcome fears of a cultist...
But there are two other possibilities:
1. A confused mind always says “no”
2. Abstention based on conscience
Neither would help Mitt in a general.
ampu
PS - I suspect we will see updated polling before long. The
mormon issue will be inspected very closely since it is
numerically, a fringe religion.
You forgot a few:
- But she's a woman and I don't like that. (heard mostly from older women)
- She let her no-good husband treat her like dirt and covered up for him. I don't want him back in the WH.
- Gee, he's so good-looking and well-groomed, so rich, such a nice family
- He's a better American than she is.
- He earned his money. She made inside deals and her husband made speeches.
- Just what's wrong with having a real business leader in the WH? The business of America is business.
Romney can still sway a few women with just his looks. Give him his due. Like Reagan, he makes the most of what he's got.
And answering a poll question over the phone isn't the same as looking at someone you might like, nominee of the party you want to vote for and realizing you intend to vote against him or abstain over his batty religious doctrine.
Mormonism isn't a nothing. But it's not as big a something as you would have us to believe. Even some of you Mormon-bashers would vote for him if he was nominated.
If you're going to list the petty voters who decide based on what they don't like (lesser of two evils), then list more of them, not just the ones that favor your own prejudice.