Pray For America
This is a request from Kathryn Jean Lopez after she reads this:
*** Post-Mortem Preview? With Mitt Romney on the ropes, the post-mortems are inevitable; call them O-Mitt-uaries. Anyway, we’re starting to hear from a lot of smart Republican strategists about what happened. And the thing that everyone seems to come back to is Romney’s religion. Why? Ask yourself: Without the issue of Romney’s religion, does Mike Huckabee ever take off? Because Mike Huckabee is the single biggest obstacle to Romney coalescing economic and social conservatives behind him to take on McCain. Take a close look at the Florida results by county from Tuesday night. In more than half of Florida’s 67 counties (37 to be exact), the Romney-Huckabee combined vote total equaled or surpassed 50%. And in those counties, 17 of them tipped to McCain. Well, extrapolate this out to, say, Alabama, Missouri, Tennessee or Georgia this Tuesday. Will the combined Romney-Huck total surpass 50% while delivering all four states to McCain? Now, if Romney hadn’t given evangelicals second thoughts simply over his religion, would Mike Huckabee have happened? It may be Romney needs another four years to convince evangelicals his religion won’t interfere with their priorities.
As I asked in A Vote for Huckabee is a Vote for McCain, is something more hateful going on?
Are people in George, Alabama, Missouri and Tennessee simply unable to vote for a Mormon?
I would like to see the results of an Exit Poll question this Tuesday: Would you ever vote for a Mormon?
UPDATE: