Today’s Reading List – November 9, 2007
Friday light after a busy week!
Compare and Contrast…
OH NO! – Mormons are supporting Romney in heavily Mormon communities.
Arch, Ultra-Conservative Donald Wildmon has endorsed Huckabee.
Here is where things are going to go very wrong if you are Mike Huckabee and very right if you are Mitt Romney. Romney has been positioning himself as a Mormon running for President. Huckabee, until very recently, has been positioning himself as the only true Evangelical in the race. Huckabee is very much at risk of being labeled as THE religious candidate, leaving Romney standing as the candidate with a religion. The former will be a noose around Huckabee's neck and the later exactly what Romney has been saying about himself all along, and in line with the great traditions of American religious political involvement.
I's say Romney is "on plan," and maybe even a little better.
A sign Romney is finally being taken seriously?
The NYTimes writes about Romney's optimisim and manages not to blame it on his faith or make any Osmond comparisons. Of course, they work very hard to burst the Reagan comparisons, but that is just politics as usual.
How to fluster the punditry…
Don't behave like cattle in a herd. They just do not get us Evangelicals.
Finally…
Not a bad op-ed from a tiny newspaper in a tiny town in Southern Illinois.
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CarlH on 10 Nov 2007 at 10:35 am #
Princeton’s Mormonism & American Politics Conference this weekend is advertised in the context of The Question, although the scope is much, much broader. Will be interesting to watch for reports, if something this serious gets attention at all. I hope the Center for the Study of Religion will expand their “downloads” to include content from the conference itself.
CarlH on 11 Nov 2007 at 7:41 pm #
Disappointingly (but not entirely surprisingly), even the reports from the Princeton conference noted above from both Salt Lake City dailies–the Salt Lake Tribune and the Deseret Morning News–where one might expect the greatest interests in the broader discussions, focused entirely on The Question–and particularly the pros and cons of “the speech.”