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Why Utah Mormons' distaste for Trump could turn a red state reluctantly blue
The Guardian ^ | 03-21-2016 | Sam Levin

Posted on 03/21/2016 6:05:54 PM PDT by NRx

The aversion to Donald Trump is so strong among Utah Mormons that if the Republican frontrunner secures the party’s presidential nomination, it could produce a general election outcome that has not happened in half a century: the state could go blue.

“The Bible says if you’ve got a wicked leader, the nation suffers,” said Chris Herrod, a former Utah state representative and a Utah campaign coordinator for Ted Cruz. “I’m not saying Donald Trump is wicked, but for most Utahns, the moral character of a leader makes a big difference.”

At the state’s high-stakes GOP caucuses on Tuesday, political experts say many conservative Mormon voters like Herrod will be motivated by their distaste for the real estate billionaire’s vulgar style, bombastic comments and outlandish anti-immigration policies – fueling an “anyone-but-Trump” mentality that has spread across the political spectrum in the very red state.

A new Deseret News/KSL poll found Trump would lose to Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders in Utah, while Kasich or Cruz would both win the state by sizeable margins against either Democrat.

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Politics/Elections; US: Utah
KEYWORDS: alreadyposted; elections; finoforhillary; finosforhillary; glennbeck; ilovemormons; mittromney; mormons; prophetted; purplestates; sniffingglue; trump; trumpbaggage; trumpmoron; ut2016; utah
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To: NRx

Did someone say "wicked leader"?

21 posted on 03/21/2016 6:14:26 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Obamanomics:Trickle Up Poverty)
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To: struggle

22 posted on 03/21/2016 6:14:53 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: Jim Robinson

I think it’s wishful thinking by the communist ‘Guardian’.


23 posted on 03/21/2016 6:16:05 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Trump it is.)
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To: goldstategop

When they see the next ant-Trump add. They will vote Trump, especially the men. Utah goes Trump due to the stupid opposition that believe in the victimization of women. Poor Ivana!


24 posted on 03/21/2016 6:16:08 PM PDT by foundedonpurpose
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To: NRx

Only a severely retarded moron would turn his back on freedom. Even if it is “reluctantly”. If Utah goes blue because of Trump, it never really was red.


25 posted on 03/21/2016 6:16:13 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (America is not a dump, sewer or "refugee" camp. It's my home.)
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To: goldstategop

These so-called conservatives are not bothered by lyin Cruse and back stabbing “the choker” Romney


26 posted on 03/21/2016 6:16:49 PM PDT by spokeshave (Somewhere there is a ceiling for Trump.....Yeah, it's called The Oval Office)
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To: NRx

I heard the speaker of the UTAH house tonight on Faux Bidness with a real conservative host, LOU DOBBS ( hasn’t been fired YET!!). Mr. Speaker said “ Much has changed in the last 24 hours” Let me tell you cruz is a Seven Mountain Dominionist. HE ABSOLUTELY IS!! CRUZ HE HATES MORMONS!!! They think Mormons are a CULT!! Ask THEM!!. Trump DOES NOT think LDS is a cult. TRUMP WILL PROTECT ALL CHRISTIANS!!


27 posted on 03/21/2016 6:17:29 PM PDT by WENDLE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgIhGgrhQeE)
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To: bigbob

28 posted on 03/21/2016 6:17:47 PM PDT by 20yearsofinternet (Border: Close it. Illegals: Deport. Muslims: Ban 'em. Economy: Liberate it. PC: Kill it. Trump 2016)
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To: Radix

I think Mormons also put American Indians in some lesser category too? Anyone know for sure? I’ve heard that they discriminated against Indians as well as blacks. Not sure of the details though.

Hard to believe Utah votes for Hillary. If people are so concerned about moral and ethical character, they would really choose Hillary over Trump????


29 posted on 03/21/2016 6:17:52 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: NRx

“moral character of “

Coming from Mormons is laughable. The cult of pedophilia and polygamy and the denouncement of Jesus as Lord and Savior. A book written by a horny perverted little bastard.


30 posted on 03/21/2016 6:18:00 PM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: NRx

I have a distaste for Donald but I’ll crawl over broken glass to vote against either of the two commies that might be on the dem ticket.


31 posted on 03/21/2016 6:18:45 PM PDT by willk (everyone)
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To: NRx

I think we can safely say Glenn Beck’s little buddy will be doing three squares a day plus an after school snack if Trump is the GOP nominee. Nonetheless, Utah will hold its nose and pull the Pubbies lever.


32 posted on 03/21/2016 6:18:49 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
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To: NRx

Because Hillary wouldn’t be a wicked leader.


33 posted on 03/21/2016 6:18:53 PM PDT by RC one
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To: NRx

Mormons are sick of Ritt Momsey and his snake oil sales.

Trump may well get the jump in the Utah caucuses.


34 posted on 03/21/2016 6:19:44 PM PDT by Candor7 ( Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: NRx

Sorry it’s Melania. To hard to keep up when you don’t have a television.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-03-21/whose-bright-idea-was-it-show-naked-melania-trump-attack-ad


35 posted on 03/21/2016 6:20:04 PM PDT by foundedonpurpose
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To: NRx

Donald Trump is a Good Man.. Too bad the hypocrites can’t see that.


36 posted on 03/21/2016 6:20:04 PM PDT by DivineMomentsOfTruth
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To: NRx

“The aversion to Donald Trump is so strong among Utah Mormons”

Can’t imagine why...

Do they support Hillary/ Because that is who we are going to get


37 posted on 03/21/2016 6:21:25 PM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: NRx

At least the Amish make good furniture, produce good crops for food and don’t try and take down a presidential candidate.


38 posted on 03/21/2016 6:22:04 PM PDT by tflabo (truth or tyrrany)
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To: NRx

What a bunch of pathetic morons not Mormons. They would inflict all the evil of Hilary Hillary Clinton on the country because Truump is wicked?

Hilary is moral scum, and Bill??


39 posted on 03/21/2016 6:22:11 PM PDT by Williams (Dear God, please save us from the Democrats. And the Republicans.)
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To: NRx

Anyone who thinks that Hillary is less “wicked” than Trump is too darned stupid to be trusted with a roll of toilet paper. They’d put their eye out!


40 posted on 03/21/2016 6:22:18 PM PDT by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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