It was government holiday and increasingly a general holiday yesterday, so things are pretty thin:

I am sad and somewhat surprised to report that Mormon bigotry is raising its very ugly head.  A Democrat! finds some soft bigotry on a conservative source.  Hugh Hewitt finds some very hard bigotry in the comments of a WaPo blog.  It is virtually impossible to respond to this kind of stuff, it is self-refuting to anyone of reason, but as Hugh points out, reason does not always apply to bigotry towards Mormons like it does towards other minorities.  I still think its a relatively small number that are so bigoted, but it is larger when concerns Mormons.

Lowell:  My honest reaction to this is puzzlement.  I don't live anything close to a sheltered life, and this kind of wild-swinging nastiness is quite foreign to my experience.  Maybe the blogosphere is surfacing it.

I spent a little time on the air with Hugh on this issue.  Discussed briefly the history of Mormon bigotry, it may be the most recent "official" bigotry to be overturned in the nation and therefore have the loudest echoes.  I have some other theories, but I will hold them until I finish a book I am reading right now.

Rudy's not serious.

ARIZONA straw poll.  Interestingly, Romney is polling a lot better than McCain in McCain's home state.  He also appears to be taking supporters out from under McCain.

Romney has serious Florida momentum - no hanging chads here.

The Irish view.  They mention The Question, but in a city divided into Protestant and Catholic zones do they know from Mormons?

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