Today’s Reading List – July 31, 2007
The Dems, in the form of Martin Frost, find a new way to play the religion card while appearing not to do so.
The press, on the other hand, tended to dismiss Mitt Romney as a serious prospect given his Mormon faith and the unwillingness of the religious right to accept anyone of the Mormon religion as anything other than a member of a cult.
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Romney has also excelled at fundraising. There are a number of financially successful Mormons and he has drawn heavily from that base, much the way Michael Dukakis drew from the Greek community nationally during his presidential run in 1988.
"Look how amazing it is that Romney has "overcome" his faith handicap!" Sheesh!
In that same vein, WaPo PoliBlogger Chris Clizza says Romney is leading amongst the Republicans, and yet
Hurdles remain for Romney, however. He is far weaker in South Carolina than in either New Hampshire or Iowa, a fact that could provide a nice opening for former Sen. Fred Thompson (R-Tenn.). And then there's the Mormon question.
One, just once, I'd like to see a piece that does not bring it up!
Elsewhere…
Local SLC television looks at The Question and the LDS church. People are asking a lot of questions, that's for sure.
Here's an interesting, left-leaning debate about religion and politics – Jan G. Linn v Jim Wallis.
Serious religious people keep lining up behind Romney.
K-Lo tries to make a Mormon joke. Sadly, it's not funny, I expect some thing along the lines K-Lo finds absurd to show up in that YouTube madness pretty quickly.
Lowell: It's true– the candidate who has the most to fear from YouTube "debate" mischief is Gov. Romney.
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