RE: does a 49/48 Baptist split pass the smell test? Or not?
I would say that most Baptists are Evangelicals ( conversely, not all Evangelicals are Baptists ).
IMHO, In the end — evangelicals will overcome their concern with having a Mormon as president and reluctantly vote for Romney as the much lesser of the two evils.
They will reason that we are not voting for a Pastor but a commander in chief and it is better for someone whose social values ( at least in terms of rhetoric ) matches theirs than the other one who is KNOWN not to be sympathetic at all to their social concerns.
So no, 49/48 is a little bit too tight in my opinion. I believe Romney’s eventual lead among the Baptists will be much bigger than that.
Had the candidate been Santorum, Newt, Cain or Bachmann, this would not even be an issue at all... but here we are — we’re stuck with Mitt... the lesser of two evils.
>> Had the candidate been Santorum, Newt, Cain or Bachmann, this would not even be an issue at all... but here we are — we’re stuck with Mitt... the lesser of two evils.
True enough, but water under the bridge at this point. We have to do the best we can.
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