Obama Running for President.

[shinerbock]

I know mystic, but I think those polls are likely to change. Lets be honest, the country really hasn't been confronted with mormonism on a grand scale yet. Theres also difference between southern conservatives telling a pollster that they won't vote for a mormon, and in voting for someone like Hillary when it comes down to it. If there were another feasible candidate, I'd agree with you. McCain and Rudy just aren't going to cut it, especially if we get to a 3 person primary debate.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by shinerbock

Lets be honest, the country really hasn't been confronted with mormonism on a grand scale yet.

No? I can see the push polls now: "Would you be more or less likely to vote for Mitt Romney if you knew that he was a Mormon, and that Mormons have historically practiced polygamy?" Below the belt and misleading? Sure. But that won't stop anything. Ask McCain about South Carolina in 2000. Ask Matt Salmon about the Arizona gubernatorial race, when just a few weeks before the election, a third-party candidate ran ads linking Salmon's Mormonism to Colorado City, Arizona, and the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

also difference between southern conservatives telling a pollster that they won't vote for a mormon, and in voting for someone like Hillary when it comes down to it.

Quite true. I don't think Romney vs. Hillary will be the issue, though. I'll be surprised if Romney is the GOP nominee, partially because I think many evangelicals, who may not publically admit that they would not vote to put a Mormon in the White House, will in fact not vote for him.

[shinerbock]

Who is gonna beat him? Everyone says he has the most buzz of any conservative candidate. McCain can't beat him in the primary, neither can Rudy. He was behind only Frist in the TN straw, and has done well in all the Iowa ones. I think being mormon will be something to overcome, but I don't think he'll have much competition when it gets going. McCain will have just as many, if not more problems luring voters in the GOP primaries. Rudy is not a serious candidate.