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tooblue · 02-09-2008, 03:59 AM

http://www.newsweek.com/id/109478

'Romney's failed courtship of evangelicals was predictable, Oman says, given that for many evangelicals, "Mormons are anathema--not only on theological grounds [but because to evangelicals] there is something uniquely disreputable about being a Mormon. I really don't think there's anything you can say that is going to convince these people to forgive you for being a Latter-day Saint. I didn't see there was any way he was going to get those votes."

So even while the attempts to sound mainstream failed to persuade evangelicals, they also made some of Romney's fellow Mormons uneasy. "Rather than the individual little comments that may have startled Mormons, I think what troubled [fellow LDS members] was a sense that he was pandering," says Bushman. "To try to be something you're not just doesn't work," he says. "I think it was a moral error, as well as a political error."'

YOhio · 02-09-2008, 04:07 AM

Timesandseasons.org gets all the love. I yearn for the day when Newsweek starts looking to Cougarguard for inside info on how Mormons feel. The journalist interviews three Mormon college professors and thinks he has a read on Mormon pulse.

It is funny that they failed to note that Romney received a Saddam Hussein-like approval rating from Mormons at the polls.

02-09-2008, 03:59 AM	#1
tooblue Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 4,016	How Mormons Saw Romney http://www.newsweek.com/id/109478 'Romney's failed courtship of evangelicals was predictable, Oman says, given that for many evangelicals, "Mormons are anathema--not only on theological grounds [but because to evangelicals] there is something uniquely disreputable about being a Mormon. I really don't think there's anything you can say that is going to convince these people to forgive you for being a Latter-day Saint. I didn't see there was any way he was going to get those votes." So even while the attempts to sound mainstream failed to persuade evangelicals, they also made some of Romney's fellow Mormons uneasy. "Rather than the individual little comments that may have startled Mormons, I think what troubled [fellow LDS members] was a sense that he was pandering," says Bushman. "To try to be something you're not just doesn't work," he says. "I think it was a moral error, as well as a political error."'

02-09-2008, 04:07 AM	#2
YOhio AKA SeattleNewt Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 7,055	Timesandseasons.org gets all the love. I yearn for the day when Newsweek starts looking to Cougarguard for inside info on how Mormons feel. The journalist interviews three Mormon college professors and thinks he has a read on Mormon pulse. It is funny that they failed to note that Romney received a Saddam Hussein-like approval rating from Mormons at the polls.