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To: koan who wrote (201202)	12/4/2010 2:12:54 PM
From: Rock_nj	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 362360

Romney being a Mormon is going to hurt him with the bible thumpers. I know one, and she said she would never vote for Romney. Many mainline Christians view Mormons as a cultish group, and given the fact that Mormons think their founder found their religious books buried in Upstate New York, I agree with that opinion. A good example of how irrational religous thought can be. Romney ran a serious campaign last time around and it imploded with the Republican voters. Perhaps 2012 will be different. Obama looks beatable at the moment. It's crazy since he had huge popular support amongst the disenfranchised liberal base which is large but not usually motivated to vote. He has done just about everything possible to keep this base of liberal voters disenfranchised and unmotivated to vote for him next time around. The one thing that might save Obama in 2012 is the economy. If it's on an upswing in 2012, the middle of the road voters might be happy enough with him to give him another go. Perhaps there will also be a backlash building against the rightwing Republican Congress by then that will give Obama some tail winds.

To: koan who wrote (201202)	12/4/2010 2:13:58 PM
From: Cautious_Optimist	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 362360

They would have to broker a shotgun marriage of Romney, an LDS guy to the evangelicals who don't see Mormons as "Christians." It hasn't been a problem for Harry Reid, a rare (public) LDS Democrat. But on the right, its an issue on the national stage where there are a lot of simmering conflicts that are avoided under the "mutual enemy" embrace. Aside from that, I continue to think Michael Bloomberg will make a big push, possibly in an independent coalition with names like Colin Powell, as the voters seek something "different" in the continuing economic abyss of jobless recovery and more evidence of an historic heist of our middle class wealth by some very smart mathafarkers.