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The Anti-Mitt for VP Campaign
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dgilgoff
TIME’s Swampland reports on an online petition aimed at dissuading John McCain from picking Mitt Romney as his running mate. The effort is reportedly run by a fringe Christian Right group. But God-o-Meter would guess that McCain would improve his standing among the Christian Right leadership by selecting Romney, who courted those leaders so assiduously…
Josh Romney on the “Mormon Factor”
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dgilgoff
As he mulls a run for Congress in Utah, Mitt Romney’s son Josh tells the Deseret Morning News that the Mormon factor mattered in his dad’s primary loss largely because Mike Huckabee made it an issue: Huckabee, a Southern Baptist minister, brought out a surprising number of evangelical voters in Iowa. They weren’t voting against…
Evangelicals Opposed to Mormons? Never!
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dgilgoff
Echoing Hot Air’s response to God-o-Meter’s op-ed on the Christian Right’s failure to help its favored candidate, Mitt Romney, by candidly discussing his Mormonism, conservative Idaho blogger Adam Graham says: I’ve always looked at a person’s values, not their particular faith, in choosing a candidate. This is why I’m so offended at the suggestion of…
The Christian Right Nominated McCain
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dgilgoff
God-o-Meter has an op-ed in USA Today arguing that the Christian Right helped secure the GOP nomination for its archenemy, John McCain, by neglecting to have a public discussion about the Mormonism of its favored candidate, Mitt Romney. Check it out here and let GOM know if you agree.
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