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Reportedly, the Romney campaign has delayed giving the “Mormon Speech”:
“It might be that a speech is more appropriate for late in the primaries or for the general election,” said another Romney advisor. “Frankly, this is going to be a question of polling; if we’re doing well in Iowa and New Hampshire, and [Romney’s Mormonism] is not coming up as a divisive issue, maybe we should just stay the course, since winning in those early states is key.”
However, if Huckabee maintains his momentum playing the non-Mormon card, that strategy may change.
Tags: 2008 campaign, anti-mormon, Mitt Romney, mormon
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30 November 2007 at 7:42 pm
David B
I don’t know that you can call Huckabee’s strategy a “non-Mormon card” as much as a “mainstream Christian” card.
(And really, he’s an ordained minister, so it’s not like that’s much of a stretch for him.)
3 December 2007 at 3:26 pm
David H. Sundwall
It’s certainly not a stretch for him.
I consider the “non-Mormon card” and “mainstream Christian card” to be one and the same. It’s not ant-Mormon but he’s certainly leveraging the Mormon issue to appeal to Evangelicals as a safer candidate. At least that’s how I see his second advertisement. I’ll try to post that and more in a future post if I can.
I think he’s crossing the line from saying “we share the same values” to “vote for me because I’m one of you,” but that’s politics.