{"id":172,"date":"2007-12-13T10:57:27","date_gmt":"2007-12-13T10:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/2007\/12\/huckabee-making-veiled-mormon.html"},"modified":"2007-12-13T10:57:27","modified_gmt":"2007-12-13T10:57:27","slug":"huckabee-making-veiled-mormon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2007\/12\/huckabee-making-veiled-mormon.html","title":{"rendered":"Huckabee: Making Veiled Mormon Attacks?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"huckabee2picture.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/211\/import\/huckabee2picture.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" style=\"float:left;margin: 5px\" \/>God-o-Meter got all excited when it read this headline in today&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/ci_7708242\">Salt Lake Tribune<\/a><\/em>: <strong>Huckabee throwing veiled LDS hardballs? Political scientists say magazine remark, TV ad are shots at Romney<\/strong>. So, God-o-Meter, told itself, you&#8217;re not the only one who feels this way. But the only true political scientist quoted in the story <a href=\"http:\/\/csed.byu.edu\/aboutcsed.html\">who actually supports the headline<\/a> is a professor with <a href=\"http:\/\/home.byu.edu\/\">Brigham Young University<\/a>, which is owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. God-o-Meter feels that this casts some doubt on his objectivity.<br \/>\nIn the <em>Trib&#8217;s <\/em>defense, the story also quotes <a href=\"http:\/\/thepage.time.com\/\">Mark Halperin<\/a>, editor at large and senior political analyst for TIME magazine:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;If this were any candidate but Huckabee, the press would be screaming with outrage about what seem to be pretty obvious attempts to exploit ignorance of and disdain for the [LDS] Church.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And the story has religion\/politics guru <a href=\"http:\/\/pewforum.org\/docs\/index.php?DocID=83\">John Green<\/a> saying Huckabee is likely benefitting from anti-Mormon sentiment, though not necessarily by design:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Whether these efforts are all part of a calculated strategy or whether they&#8217;re not, there&#8217;s the potential that Huckabee could get the votes of those who express skepticism against Mormons. There certainly is that sentiment out there [against Mormons], and Huckabee among others would be well-positioned to take advantage of that sentiment.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Still, that means one political analyst, TIME&#8217;s Halperin, is on record saying Huckabee&#8217;s playing the Mormon card. He&#8217;s one of the country&#8217;s best political minds, to be sure, but God-o-Meter is nonetheless left feeling a bit isolated.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God-o-Meter got all excited when it read this headline in today&#8217;s Salt Lake Tribune: Huckabee throwing veiled LDS hardballs? Political scientists say magazine remark, TV ad are shots at Romney. So, God-o-Meter, told itself, you&#8217;re not the only one who feels this way. 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