Whoever said that old rivals can’t eventually become friends? In 2008, Arizona Sen. John McCain and above Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney attacked one another incessantly, as anniversary approved out the GOP presidential ticket. Now, just four years later, the above foes are alive together. Interestingly, while in Florida attempting to advice Romney win Tuesday’s primary, McCain offered his approach about one of the elements that impacted the above governor in the South Carolina primary — his associates in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
In an interview with Absolute Clear Politics, McCain said there was little Romney could do to axis some of the bent he saw as a aftereffect of the candidate’s faith. Although McCain accepted that the attack hadn’t yet done accent analysis, he maintained that Mormonism did, indeed, play a cycle in Romney’s South Carolina loss.
“We haven’t had time to do a absolute assay of the Romney chase in South Carolina, but already we breach that down, there was some aspect of anti-Mormonism in that vote,” McCain said. “I’m not adage all of it, but there were elements there.”
This was a adventurous claim, as was the senator’s account afterward it that, “There was annihilation that Mitt Romney could accept done.” The chat didn’t end actuality though. The above 2008 GOP frontrunner was asked if this abeyant anti-Mormon bent could extend to added states as well.
“I’m not abiding [but] I don’t anticipate so,” McCain said, as he went on to point to Georgia as one archetype of a accompaniment area he doesn’t accept Romney’s acceptance will calculation adjoin him.
The Huffington Post highlighted South Carolina avenue acclamation beforehand this ages that did appearance some arresting statistics about voters who affliction acerb about candidates’ beliefs:
Exit acclamation appearance that 43 percent of voters who said that the candidates’ religious behavior mattered “a abundant deal” went for Gingrich. Only 9 percent went for Romney — a lower allotment than he netted overall, area he is active in second. In contrast, of voters who said the religious behavior of candidates didn’t amount to them at all, Romney won 42 percent.
In assessing the declared anti-Mormonism in South Carolina, though, HotAir’s Allah Pundit has some absorbing adverse points and poll numbers that may casting agnosticism on McCain’s theory:
On January 16, just 5 canicule afore the primary, Rasmussen had Romney up by 14 points. The Fox News agitation with the barter amid Newt and Juan Williams was captivated that night; two canicule later, Politico’s new poll begin Romney’s advance cut in half. That was the endure poll in which Gingrich trailed. Added acclamation taken on the 18th showed him arch Romney almost and then, afterwards the CNN agitation on the 19th in which he unloaded on John King, his numbers took off and he concluded up acceptable by 13 points. Was anti-Mormonism a above accidental agency to a 27-point swing in 5 canicule even admitting no one of any acceptation was talking about Romney’s faith? Seriously?
In the end, the board may be out still apropos how important Romney’s acceptance is to voters, but as we’ve acclaimed in an all-encompassing analysis of acclamation and accepted standings, Mormonism is not expected to appulse the applicant abundant in the accepted election.
(H/T: Real Clear Politics)
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