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JakobVirgil  ·  4619 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: My math on the Republican Primary
The Mormon thing sinks him more deeply than most think. He has to suppress the greater portion of his personality and story to appear vanilla. this leaves him with http://images.forbes.com/media/2010/04/12/0412_richie-rich_2... and not much else. If he embraces the beautiful strangeness of Mormonism, he will not get the core evangelical vote the core of 25% of the voting pop by my estimates. it is a fatal flaw. Which is too bad most Mormons of my acquaintance are very nice people and secret commies.




thenewgreen  ·  4619 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Secret commies, huh? I never realized that. I would have guessed more libertarians.
JakobVirgil  ·  4619 days ago  ·  link  ·  
They come from the Christian Left/Radical Reformation and used to live in communal villages and still swear to live with all things in common in their temples even today. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Order