{"id":684,"date":"2008-06-23T14:48:23","date_gmt":"2008-06-23T14:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/2008\/06\/maybe-mccain-doesnt-need-romne.html"},"modified":"2008-06-23T14:48:23","modified_gmt":"2008-06-23T14:48:23","slug":"maybe-mccain-doesnt-need-romne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2008\/06\/maybe-mccain-doesnt-need-romne.html","title":{"rendered":"Maybe McCain Doesn&#8217;t Need Romney After All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Among John McCain&#8217;s former competitors for the Republican presidential nomination, Mitt Romney has been most outspokenly supportive. As the God-o-Meter noted, the two men recently traded compliments during a McCain fundraiser in Massachusetts, where Romney served a single-term as governor until 2006. And such shows of goodwill have raised the question of whether McCain might pick Romney, a Mormon who also has deep ties to Michigan, as his running mate.<\/p>\n<p>But an impressively extensive and in-depth <a href=\"http:\/\/religions.pewforum.org\/reports\">poll <\/a>about Americans&#8217; religious identities, beliefs and political preferences, released today by the Pew Forum on Religion &amp; Public Life, strongly suggests McCain would gain little bounce among Romney&#8217;s co-religionists were he to select him as his veep. The simple reason is that the overwhelming majority of Mormons already identify as Republicans. <\/p>\n<p>According to the poll, fully 65 percent of Mormons either say they are Republicans or &#8220;lean&#8221; that way. (Only 22 percent said they are or lean Democratic.) No other religious group comes close. Members of evangelical churches told Pew they identified with the GOP by a 50 percent to 34 percent split.<\/p>\n<p>The most Democratic of America&#8217;s religious groups? Members of historically black churches, 77 percent to 10 percent, followed by Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists and Jews, within each of whom about a&nbsp;two-thirds proportion claimed to be Democrats or to lean that way.<\/p>\n<p>Pew reported getting the results from interviews with 35,000 people.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among John McCain&#8217;s former competitors for the Republican presidential nomination, Mitt Romney has been most outspokenly supportive. As the God-o-Meter noted, the two men recently traded compliments during a McCain fundraiser in Massachusetts, where Romney served a single-term as governor until 2006. 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