Posted on 02/06/2012 2:42:39 PM PST by JediJones
[Me: The title of the article says "hesitant," but the article says that 22% is a flat "no" in answer to the question ending with "would you vote for that person?"]
Though the vast majority of Americans say they would vote for their party's nominee for president in 2012 if that person happens to be a Mormon, 22% say they would not, a figure largely unchanged since 1967. [Me: Is less than 4 out of 5 really considered "vast?"]
The new Gallup poll, conducted June 9-12, finds nearly 20% of Republicans and independents saying they would not support a Mormon for president. That is slightly lower than the 27% of Democrats saying the same.
At 22%, Americans' resistance to electing a Mormon president, even one nominated by their own party, is exceeded only by their opposition to electing someone who is either gay or lesbian (32%) or an atheist (49%).
The stability in U.S. bias against voting for a Mormon presidential candidate contrasts markedly with steep declines in similar views toward several other groups over the past half-century, including blacks, women, Catholics, and Jews.
This may be less troubling for Romney in the GOP primaries, where the vote could be highly fractured anyway, than in the general election, where -- should he win the Republican nomination -- he would need nearly complete support from Republicans to be competitive with President Obama.
(Excerpt) Read more at gallup.com ...
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Both support abortion
Both support gun grabs
Both support government mandates
Both support homosexual agenda
Both support man made global warming
So how are they different?
One’s a liberal muslim, one’s a liberal mormon - cut from the same jib.
Placemark
QUESTION:
For all and anyone: Name for me a single nationally known conservative Mormon politician.
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ANSWER: The answer is in my tagline. Mormonism is incompatible with true conservatism.
Mormonism might be a form of moralism, but it’s NOT conservatism.
The lds-org denies that Jesus is the Creator, that everything was created THROUGH Him, BY Him and FOR Him.
They deny that Jesus created even the angels out of nothing.
They do NOT teach the truth about Jesus.
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