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To: sandude
It was the untruths that were foisted in the push polls ...

Just what WERE the untruths?

I've not had access to what was actually asked.

145 posted on 11/18/2007 5:33:47 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie; JRochelle; colorcountry; MHGinTN; Colofornian; Pan_Yans Wife; Petronski; Politicalmom
Just what WERE the untruths?

That's what is interesting about the whole thing. From the Salt Lake Tribune: Calls to voters target Romney's LDS faith

The calls, first reported by The Associated Press, ask voters whether they know Romney is a Mormon, that he received a draft deferment from Vietnam to serve a mission, that Mormons didn't allow blacks to hold the priesthood until the 1970s and the LDS Church views the Book of Mormon as superior to the Bible. (Note: From the LDS "Articles of Faith",We believe the Bible to be the word of God as far as it is translated correctly; we also believe the Book of Mormon to be the word of God.)

News reports say the calls in New Hampshire and Iowa also raised the issue of a Mormon temple ceremony known as baptism for the dead, defined the LDS Church as a cult and asked whether that would make a voter less likely to vote for Romney.

The calls reportedly were placed by Western Wats, an Orem-based survey-research firm.

There are no "untruths in the questions asked. My note further explains the "Bible and Book of Mormon" belief.

And from an article in the Deseret Morning News in August,

Romney's advisers haven't agreed yet on how to handle the questions raised about his faith. One option is a series of unscripted "moments," like the Mickelson interview, rather than a full-blown speech. Another is to wait to do anything significant until after the primaries, to counter then whatever issues about Mormonism may be raised by the Democrats if Romney is the GOP nominee.

There appears to be no hurry. As one Romney aide explained, "when people attack his religion he becomes an underdog, and people like underdogs." A recent Washington Post-ABC News poll showed Romney leading among Iowa evangelical Protestants.

Mitt 'no shrinking violet' about faith

165 posted on 11/18/2007 7:34:59 AM PST by greyfoxx39 (I have a tagline . I just don't think the forum police will allow me to use it. THEY'RE EVERYWHERE)
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