And the President will thank you for your support.
What do you have against Huntsman? He's perfectly sane (unlike the good doctor), has a reasonable conservative track record (unlike Romney), is largely free of baggage (unlike Gingrich). And he's on an upward trajectory in the polls.
Utah is a red state. Huntsman won his first term as governor with 58% and his second by 78%.
Some have expressed dismay at his ambassadorship to China. But, if David Petraeus had thrown his hat in the ring, would you hold it against him that he had been Obama's DCI? The fact is, Petraeus was well qualified to be DCI. And Huntsman was well qualified to be ambassador to China, knowing the language and having already been ambassador to Singapore under GHWB, at 32, the youngest US ambassador in 100 years. Would you rather Zero had appointed one of his czar types to either of those posts? Huntsman's ambassadorship to China is just another resume item in his favor.
Huntsman wrote a love letter to BHO - nuff said.
And a heavily MORMON one.
What religion was Huntsmans opposition?
Roughly 2% of Americans are Mormon, and they reside overwhelmingly in the West. Two in three Utah residents are Mormon; Mormons settled Utah in the mid-19th century and the headquarters of the church is in Salt Lake City. The data suggest that one of every three Mormons in the United States lives in Utah. Idaho also has a rather large proportion of Mormons, as more than one in five Idahoans affiliate with that religion.
U.S. States With Most Mormons
|
State |
% Mormon |
|
|
|
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Utah |
67 |
|
Idaho |
21 |
|
Wyoming |
9 |
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Nevada |
9 |
|
Arizona |
5 |
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Montana |
4 |
|
Washington |
4 |
|
New Mexico |
3 |
|
Oregon |
3 |
Gallup Poll