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Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Democrats don't have horns. Really

Wayne Holland wins over a convert.

In the past few years, a couple mid-level LDS church leaders have acknowledged that Mormons who vote Democratic probably won't burn in Hell. Now, the Democratic Party is taking them at their word and is proselytizing Mormon Republicans, arguing the Avis party shares more of their values than their own GOP.

Dem Chairman Wayne Holland says the party has surveyed LDS voters:

More and more, Democratic values — like stewardship of the land, a healthy environment, family health care, a safer community — are also values of many LDS people.

Apparently, Democrats figure abortion choice and gay rights are just minor differences between their party and most LDS faithful.

Holland's got some work ahead, as is evident from the most recent poll in the Tribune that found most Utahns don't share the his party's love for Barack Obama. The numbers show Utah will support John McCain over Obama by a margin of 55 percent to 32 percent.

And as Utah County added 80,000 voters to the rolls, only 7 percent registered Democrat. The shred of good news for Holland is that the portion registering with the GOP is down from 53 percent to 44 percent.

Still, something is going on under the radar:

• Obama out fund raised McCain 7-1 in Utah since September.

• The Young Democrats club at Brigham Young University is flourishing, according to the last message they smuggled out.

• Finally, despite the Obama poll numbers, I have come across a surprising number of twentysomething Mormons at Obama rallies who say his campaign has pulled them into politics for the first time. Purely anecdotal, of course — I'm just sayin'.

5 Comments:

At October 29, 2008 1:17 PM , Anonymous said...: Every eight years or so, the Democrats in Utah County make a lot of noise and then have their butts handed to them by the voters.

Then they try to get back into the Republican Party.
At October 29, 2008 5:02 PM , Anonymous said...: then their kids and grandkids live in debt slavery
At October 30, 2008 5:52 AM , Anonymous said...: Careful now....When it comes to the details of Judgement, The Lord Jesus is an "equal opportunity employer", Smoking or Non Smoking!
At October 30, 2008 7:33 AM , Anonymous said...: I'm a relatively young LDS democrat. I don't consider gay rights and abortion "minor" issues... However, I believe in worshiping Almighty God according to the dictates of my own conscience, and allowing ALL men to do the same. As for the "debt slavery" comment... Pretty sure the current administration didn't help that cause much.
At October 31, 2008 2:25 AM , Anonymous said...: But I know for sure that Mormons have horns. Democrats are actually horny...but that's another subject. I can see how you got confused though.