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This article from yesterday’s NYTimes magazine is a pretty good assessment of Americans’ attitudes toward Mormonism via Mitt Romney.
Yet the Mormons’ political loyalty is not fully reciprocated by their fellow Republicans. Twenty-nine percent of Republicans told the Harris Poll last year that they probably or definitely would not vote for a Mormon for president. Among evangelicals, some of the discomfort is narrowly religious: Mormon theology is sometimes understood as non-Christian and heretical. Elsewhere, the reasons for the aversion to Mormons are harder to pin down — bigotry can be funny that way — but they are certainly not theological. A majority of Americans have no idea what Mormons believe. Via
And of course, I am more than curious to find out what happens tomorrow in New Hampshire…We’ll see.
I am also weirded out by Romney’s new term for Obama as the “senator killer”…hmm yeahh. That’s not a calculated term at all.