Posted on 06/22/2012 5:12:13 AM PDT by Colofornian
Mitt Romney faces an anti-Mormon bias just as strong as the one his father confronted during his own presidential run more than four decades ago, according to a Gallup poll.
Eighteen percent of Americans say that if their political party nominated “a generally well qualified person for president who happened to be Mormon,” they would not vote for that candidate. Romney, the presumptive Republican nominee, is a devout Mormon who once presided over the church’s Boston stake.
When Gallup asked the same question in 1967, during George Romney’s bid for the White House, 17 percent of Americans said they would refuse to vote for a Mormon.
“The stability of resistance to a Mormon presidential candidate over the past 45 years is an anomaly, given that resistance to a candidate who is black, a woman or Jewish has declined substantially over the same period of time,” Gallup Poll Editor-in-Chief Frank Newport wrote in a press release announcing the survey results.
The electoral significance of a lingering anti-Mormon bias is unclear because only 57 percent of Americans even know that Romney is a Mormon, according to the poll.
“This suggests the possibility that as Romney’s faith becomes better known this summer and fall, it could become more of a negative factor -- given that those who resist the idea of a Mormon president will in theory become more likely to realize that Romney is a Mormon as the campaign unfolds,” Newport said. “That things will actually work out this way, however, is far from clear.”
Democrats, who are unlikely to vote for Romney anyway, oppose a Mormon president at a much higher rate than Republicans, 24 percent to 10 percent. Opposition among independents stands at 18 percent.
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So, what are my choices? Vote Obama or the whiter version of him?
If Romney gets in and does nothing to undo Obama's agenda, will you except responsibly for supporting him?
People should repent but that doesn't end there.
The "Jesus take the wheel" crowd would sit home waiting for things to happen while the commie/atheists work over time destroying this country and corrupting the young. Even spreading the gospel requires people to get out of the house and visit their neighbor.
There has to be some reason God has done this, and that seems about the most reasonable one of several.
But I am still not hopping on the Mitt train myself. I am not willing to turn cheerleader quite yet...
Since when is evidence an issue with those in the LDS?
I'm sitting at my terminal.
Pretend you are the jury and answer BlueMoose's question at #283....
One way to find out: present the case to the jury!
Is Moose joining congressman Al Green wanting to put Christians on trial?
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