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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Freedom Fighter who wrote (112260)	3/16/2008 10:36:41 AM
From: Freedom Fighter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

This is actually very similar to the issue of Romney being a Mormon. Is it an advantage of disadvantage? For him it was clearly a negative. There are way more republicans that will vote against him because he's a Mormon than there are republicans that will vote for him because he's a Mormon. Obviously though, if the election was held in Utah, it would be a huge advantage. It's all about the demographics of the population doing the voting and whether one specific attribute of a candidate will cause voters to sway one way or the other and produce a net positive or negative. That's how you measure it as a stand alone factor.