2016's Strangest Swing State
EMMA GREEN
SEP 5, 2016
... Say every state .. that’s .. somewhat contested goes to .. Trump in November. Say he wins Ohio and Florida and manages to hang onto .. North Carolina and Georgia. Only in that case, on Trump’s best possible Election Day, would Utah’s .. votes determine the outcome of the .. race ...
... Trump .. was brought down by the Beehive State: “We’re having a tremendous problem in Utah,” he said during a recent speech to evangelical pastors in Florida. “It could cost us the Supreme Court” ...
The idea that a Republican candidate for president could have a “Mormon problem” .. is remarkable — and not just because an estimated 70 percent of LDS voters lean right ...
In August, Deseret News, the influential Mormon publication run by the Church, issued an editorial opposing the way the website Breitbart characterized its position on immigration; given Breitbart’s close ties to Trump, the piece was effectively pushback against the campaign. Meanwhile, a Mormon Harvard professor, David Holland, wrote an editorial in the Deseret News condemning Trump for “his inwardly looking nativism” and “his crass playboy persona.” Holland is not just any anti-Trump professor, though: He is the son of Jeffrey R. Holland, a member of the Quorum of Twelve, and has also served as a leader in local LDS stakes, or groups of churches ...
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/09/mormons/498506/
