http://sorendayton.com/2006/11/30/romney-campaign-on-the-mormon-question/ Merely an aggregation of a dispersed life online Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:08:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://sorendayton.com/2006/11/30/romney-campaign-on-the-mormon-question/comment-page-1/#comment-2048 The Right’s Field » Blog Archive » Which Romney Question Thu, 21 Dec 2006 06:27:33 +0000 http://www.eyeon08.com/2006/11/30/romney-campaign-on-the-mormon-question/#comment-2048 [...] Soren Dayton, the GOP consultant who runs the blog eye on ‘08 has brought up the significance of the Mormon question before on his blog (he doesn’t think it’s an issue). Why’s Romney getting beaten up so badly, so early in the Republican primary? Surely he’s not the first top-tier Republican candidate who’s tracked hard to the right before a primary. I mean surely another Republican candidate hasn’t stood on stage and denounced the a significant portion of their base as “agents of intolerance,” voted against tax cuts for the rich, etc. Why is Romney’s flip-flops a more significant issue? Chuck Todd asked about “The Mormon Question”. Jan Van Lohuizen, Romney’s pollster responded with: (Dayton’s emphasis, not mine) There are two levels to the answer. One level is the inside baseball between now and, call it August. The people in this room are going to hear questions about the Mormon thing until its ridiculous or its embarassing. I think the question will wear itself out. There is no answer because the question is a weapon and you keep repeating the question until people…don’t want to hear it anymore. At the voter level, the polling on it has been just really mixed. Some people say it;’s a problem to more than 40%, other people say 20%. [...] [...] Soren Dayton, the GOP consultant who runs the blog eye on ‘08 has brought up the significance of the Mormon question before on his blog (he doesn’t think it’s an issue). Why’s Romney getting beaten up so badly, so early in the Republican primary? Surely he’s not the first top-tier Republican candidate who’s tracked hard to the right before a primary. I mean surely another Republican candidate hasn’t stood on stage and denounced the a significant portion of their base as “agents of intolerance,” voted against tax cuts for the rich, etc. Why is Romney’s flip-flops a more significant issue? Chuck Todd asked about “The Mormon Question”. Jan Van Lohuizen, Romney’s pollster responded with: (Dayton’s emphasis, not mine) There are two levels to the answer. One level is the inside baseball between now and, call it August. The people in this room are going to hear questions about the Mormon thing until its ridiculous or its embarassing. I think the question will wear itself out. There is no answer because the question is a weapon and you keep repeating the question until people…don’t want to hear it anymore. At the voter level, the polling on it has been just really mixed. Some people say it;’s a problem to more than 40%, other people say 20%. [...]

]]> http://sorendayton.com/2006/11/30/romney-campaign-on-the-mormon-question/comment-page-1/#comment-2047 eyeon08.com » Romney’s real problem with the Log Cabin letter Sat, 09 Dec 2006 18:07:09 +0000 http://www.eyeon08.com/2006/11/30/romney-campaign-on-the-mormon-question/#comment-2047 [...] I have argued that Romney actually wants to fight the Mormon question, because it is a dodge of the conservative question. Romney has several problems here: [...] [...] I have argued that Romney actually wants to fight the Mormon question, because it is a dodge of the conservative question. Romney has several problems here: [...]

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