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Posted on 07/26/2007 5:03:33 PM PDT by tantiboh
Democratic political consultant Mark Mellman has a very good piece up today at The Hill on the baffling and illegitimate opposition among voters to Mitt Romney due to his religion. I liked his closing paragraphs:
In July of 1958, 24 percent of respondents told Gallup they would not vote for a Catholic for president, almost identical to Gallup’s reading on Mormons today. Two years later, John F. Kennedy became the first Catholic to assume the oath of office. Within eight months, the number refusing to vote for a Catholic was cut almost in half.
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Mellman also discusses an interesting poll he helped construct, in which the pollsters asked half of their respondents whether they would support a candidate with certain characteristics, and asked the other half about another candidate with the exact same characteristics, with one difference. The first candidate was Baptist, the second candidate was Mormon. The Baptist had a huge advantage over the Mormon candidate, by about 20 points.
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However, more recent polls have attempted to fix the anonymity problem. A recent Time Magazine poll (read the original report here), for example, got to the heart of the question by asking respondents if they are less likely to vote for Mitt Romney specifically because he is a Mormon. The result is not as bad as some reporting on the poll has suggested. For example, while 30% of Republicans say they are less likely to vote for Romney because of his religion, fully 15% of other Republicans say that characteristic makes them more likely to vote for him. And while many have reported the finding that 23% of Republicans are “worried” by Romney’s Mormonism, the more important (but less-reported) number is that 73% say they hold no such reservations...
(Excerpt) Read more at romneyexperience.com ...
Good post.........
Run, Forrest, Run!!
How about this:
All our church 'rituals' are found in the Scriptures?
Well it's no WONDER that you're LDS then!
Watch out for some of those picture posts of Resties!!!
Once again, CC lets everyone know that anything from a Mormon apologist is of no worth. I don't think there was a link to much of what nowandlater posted. I might be wrong but I think he may have typed much of his posts in manually. My hat goes off to him for what he added to the conversation. It seems to me that we on the Mormon side consider the questions posed and respond. Sometimes our responses are filled with venom and attitude which is unhelpful and when we do the anti Mormon side has every right to call the poster out on it. Other times we respond with respect but our thoughtful comments are dismissed as just more garbage because it includes data from scholars who happen to be Mormon. How do you ever expect to make any headway with us CC when you frequently insinuate that we're stupid or dishonest?
Better than being a nappy-haired person from IDAHO!
Yes.
Huh how did I get to this?
Do you realize that your Temple rites are NOT supported by your Scriptures?
Huh how did I get into this?
Don’t you know by now that I am the pimple on a pickle!:
30-61% Across the board Refuse to Vote for a Mormon - despite hundreds of millions spent by the LDS church on PR
“Do you really think the LDS church is trying to influence voters?”
NO. They constantly try to influence the public perception
of the mormonism cult, however. The fact that 30-61% of voters
will not vote for a mormon must be based on the public
perception of mormons. It isn’t working... unless it started
out as 45-85%...
Why do you keep spamming the thread???
Then try THIS one:
Why does your organization do things in the Temple that are not AUTHORIZED by your Scriptures?
N,
maybe you shouldn’t pick and choose from intellectuals
work to support a doctrine. Norm Geisler was one of
my teachers in seminary. If he knew you were using
his work on the resurrection to support the cultic
teachings of mormonism, he’d spit nails!
In other words, N&L I knew Norm Geisler, I had Norm Geisler
as a teacher... and ...
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