Thanks.
I looked up Young’s challenger
He’s a Mormon—looks and smells like a Mormon from rural Idaho from his answers on Ballotpedia. The only initial red-flag is being middle-of-the-road on immigration, but Mormons, in my experience, always “grow”.
https://ballotpedia.org/Ben_Fuhriman#Campaign_themes
He isn’t Mitt Romney yet, but Mitt started off in Michigan. If the other potential losses are of this caliber, it won’t affect caucus greatly, but in the long term one has some “sheep” that may turn out to be wolf pups (or cougars-IIRC he is a BYU grad)
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Very good. Might explain why some of us here are not liked.
“I looked up Young’s challenger
He’s a Mormon—looks and smells like a Mormon from rural Idaho from his answers on Ballotpedia.”
Yeah, “Mormon” is extremely often a red flag. And in as state like Utah or Idaho and perhaps isolated places in other states such as Arizona, Nevada and Wyoming, being a Mormon is very important to the electorate. Truly conservative Mormon politicians are rare things.
If the conservative was not a Mormon and lost here, I think we have our explanation. Mormons will always vote for their own kind over someone who isn’t part of the tribe, and as a group they greatly prefer someone who is NOT conservative over someone who is.