Mormons are embarrassing the rest of the Religious Right by abandoning Trump

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Mormons are embarrassing the rest of the Religious Right by abandoning Trump

by Jack Jenkins at Think Progress

https://thinkprogress.org/mormons-embarrass-religious-right-a84f0fd78b85#.lq2x9k11e

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Things got even weirder on Wednesday morning, when a new poll in Mormon-majority Utah revealed that Trump and Clinton are now neck-in-neck in the state claiming 26 percent of the vote each, with Evan McMullin — an independent candidate for president who also happens to be Mormon — coming in third with 22 percent. Even more shocking: the survey, which was one of the first taken since the tapes were released, reported that a majority of voters statewide — specifically Mormons — believe Trump should drop out of the race. This from Mormons, the most reliably Republican major religious group in America.

The poll results were so dramatic that it left political analysts such as the Washington Post’s Philip Bump aghast.

“There’s not a lot of polling done in Utah, so it’s worth remembering that this is one poll, in isolation,” Bump said. “And that said: Dang.”

The Mormon flight from Trump is markedly distinct from the reaction of conservative Christian voters who have thus far vowed to support the business mogul come election day. Shortly before the tapes were released, PRRI reported that 69 percent of white evangelical Protestants said they would vote for Trump. The group’s post-scandal poll, released earlier this week, showed 65 percent still said the same — a statistically insignificant shift that showed little, if any, actual movement.



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[tonyt53]

1. Not so fast. This morning I saw the president of the Southern Baptist Seminary in Louisville

He was on with a female Trump surrogate. She defended his comments, and the president of the SBS (a pastor also), denounced the words of Trump and said he could not support him for those words and questioned how others could. But then he isn't a televangelist living in a gated castle and a recipient of those 1%er tax breaks.

[Wellstone ruled]

2. Mentioned this before,

our House District 4 Candidate got a whopping 26% of the vote. And this fellow was a Non-Mormon running against Stewart a Mormon as a high ranking member of the Priesthood. Hillary will probably end up with 34% hopefully more,but that will be the best show since JFK.