Did you not see this post by Jim at CampaignSpot?
O.K I’ll post it for you!
From CampaignSpot.
MITT ROMNEY
A Jarring Statistic in Romney’s Nevada Victory
I don’t think the Mormon card is a legitimate card to play against Mitt Romney. Love him or hate him, there are plenty of reasons to vote for or against the man besides his religion.
But if the entrance polls are accurate - that 25 percent of the GOP caucusgoers were Mormon, and that 94 percent of those voters voted for Romney - then the post-victory spin from his rivals is going to be, “Well, what do you expect? He mobilized the Mormons, and they put him over the top.” (To his credit, he also won evangelical Protestants and Catholics, but by much narrower margins.)
If accurate, that’s a wildly disproportionate turnout for that demographic. As MSNBC notes, they’re 7.5 percent of the state’s population.
I can hear the cries of, “so what?” Yes, Nevadans are free to vote for or against any candidate on whatever basis. But I’m almost as disturbed by those who vote for a candidate because of his or her religion as I am by those who vote against a candidate because of his or her religion.
I mean, I’m Catholic (and a lousy one at that), but if I put the religious denomination above all else, I’d end up voting for Mario Cuomo, Nancy Pelosi, Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, Bob Menendez, etc. ...
Spot on.
What it says to me is, the Mormons have said don’t use his religion against him, but, oh BTW, we are voting for him because we’re Mormons.
Grrrr.
Nobody was stopping non-Mormons from going to the polls. If they don’t like the results, they have no one to blame but themselves for the exceptionally high percentage of Mormons who got off their duffs and got to the polls vs. the low percentage of non-Mormons.