{"id":187,"date":"2007-12-19T07:40:01","date_gmt":"2007-12-19T07:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/2007\/12\/can-mormons-give-romney-an-edg.html"},"modified":"2007-12-19T07:40:01","modified_gmt":"2007-12-19T07:40:01","slug":"can-mormons-give-romney-an-edg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2007\/12\/can-mormons-give-romney-an-edg.html","title":{"rendered":"Can Mormons Give Romney an Edge in Iowa?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"romney12.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/211\/import\/romney12.jpg\" width=\"98\" \/><em><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB119793553723735331.html?mod=special_page_campaign2008_leftbox\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/em> reports on a small but dependable bloc of Romney supporters in Iowa: Mormons. Here&#8217;s how they stack up mathematically:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints says it has more than 22,500 members in Iowa in 68 congregations. Joseph Cheney, the president of one of seven &#8220;stakes,&#8221; or geographical groups within the church, estimates that as many as 7,000 Mormons are likely to show up on caucus night, and that nearly three-quarters of the Mormons in the state support Mr. Romney.<br \/>\nThat isn&#8217;t enough to compete with the 500,000 Iowa evangelicals, or about a quarter of the voting-adult population, according to the Pew Forum on Religion &amp; Public Life. But in a tight race, the Iowa Mormon vote could give Mr. Romney an edge.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From that statistical read, Mormons appear to be vastly outnumbered by evangelicals. But God-o-Meter notes that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gwu.edu\/~action\/chrniowa.html\">fewer than 90,000 Republicans<\/a> actually turned out for Iowa&#8217;s last competitive presidential caucuses, in 2000. If they flock to the caucuses in droves this time around, Mormons could have a somewhat disproportionate influence.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n9<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wall Street Journal reports on a small but dependable bloc of Romney supporters in Iowa: Mormons. Here&#8217;s how they stack up mathematically: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints says it has more than 22,500 members in Iowa in 68 congregations. Joseph Cheney, the president of one of seven &#8220;stakes,&#8221; or geographical groups&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mitt-romney"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Can Mormons Give Romney an Edge in Iowa? - God-O-Meter<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2007\/12\/can-mormons-give-romney-an-edg.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Can Mormons Give Romney an Edge in Iowa? - God-O-Meter\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Wall Street Journal reports on a small but dependable bloc of Romney supporters in Iowa: Mormons. 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