{"id":20717,"date":"2011-06-24T06:53:52","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T11:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=20717"},"modified":"2011-08-25T15:13:47","modified_gmt":"2011-08-25T20:13:47","slug":"i-wont-say-its-unexpected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=20717","title":{"rendered":"I Won&#8217;t Say It&#8217;s Unexpected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gallup <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/148100\/Hesitant-Support-Mormon-2012.aspx\">released a poll earlier this week<\/a> showing that Americans&#8217; cold feet about voting for a Mormon for President has been holding steady for a long, long time:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Though the vast majority of Americans say they would vote for their party&#8217;s nominee for president in 2012 if that person happens to be a Mormon, 22% say they would not, a figure largely unchanged since 1967.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the part that I did <em>and <\/em>didn&#8217;t expect:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The new Gallup poll, conducted June 9-12, finds nearly 20% of Republicans and independents saying they would not support a Mormon for president. <strong>That is slightly lower than the 27% of Democrats saying the same<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So now we see which party is <em>really <\/em>clogged with bigotry and hatred.<\/p>\n<p>Nah. \u00a0I&#8217;m a kidder. \u00a0I kid. \u00a0Maybe it&#8217;s just that the libs&#8217; most prominent Mormon is Harry Reid.<\/p>\n<p>It makes sense now, doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gallup released a poll earlier this week showing that Americans&#8217; cold feet about voting for a Mormon for President has been holding steady for a long, long time: Though the vast majority of Americans say they would vote for their party&#8217;s nominee for president in 2012 if that person happens to be a Mormon, 22% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-12","category-faiths-and-their-followers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20717"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21940,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20717\/revisions\/21940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}