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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By not voting for Romney you ARE SUPPORTING OBAMA!
Is that too difficult to comprehend?
It “proves” that I want OBAMA OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE, so that he dose not DESTROY AMERICA!!!
YOU have no idea how OBAMA will work harder against your interests than anybody else possibly could.
Sorry guys, you vote for liberals if you wish - I do not.
I do not suffer from BHOhysteria or BHOphobia both of which lead some to support the liberal R.
Do what you need to do.
The statement:
How exactly is exposing Mormonism, or the pathological liar Mitt Romney, a shame to Jesus Christ?
The deconstruct:
It is only necessary to those who have for some reason have decided to defend mormonism and chastize anyone exposing it or the liberal called Romney, to everyone else the question is clear.
False logic. All it requires is that I accept his word.
Ahh... 'Suspension of Belief'... forgot about that.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
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Why AREN'T you?
but BHOdyspepsia is alright, right? Cuz I am pretty sure I have that.
When...
I guess it's ok with you if Obama's perceived religion is ALSO off the table?
Can you not see that is how you've been manipualted?
Why are YOU against Obama so?
Did not the Author of GRACE tell us to OBEY our leaders and to PRAY for our leaders?
1 Corinthians 7:21-23
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21 Were you a slave when you were called? Don’t let it trouble you—although if you can gain your freedom, do so. 22 For the one who was a slave when called to faith in the Lord is the Lord’s freed person; similarly, the one who was free when called is Christ’s slave. 23 You were bought at a price; do not become slaves of human beings.
Whistling past the graveyard.
You have NO idea what kind of people would end up in these spots under Romney - merely wishful thinking.
That was no hint...
Especially in the face of the only alternative.
So; you 'accept' Mitt's word; but NOT Baraks?
You some kinda RACIST?
Trying to convince people that Romney made a real conversion to life and then discarding the effort, defending/supporting Mormonism while attacking Christians in religion is hardly a respectable campaign effort no matter how much one is devoted to their candidate.
Pope John II took a different stance on the Mormon/Christian issue, the Pope announced to the world that Mormonism was not a Christian religion.
Christians side with the Pope and speak out against Mormonism on the religion thread at a conservative site, some come at those Christians and try to brow beat them into submission and silence they say in the name of politics this time.
It is hard to imagine a Romney administration presenting a cabinet that is worse than the present one. Not voting for Romney is a defacto vote FOR Obama. Those who are concerned about his personnel and policies need to make sure that he is accompanied by a conservative Republican House and Senate.
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