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The technical term for this in political science is “Reverse Psychological Doublespeak Dog-Whistling”:
Huckabee: Don’t vote against rival Romney just because he’s Mormon
Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee said it would be wrong for caucus voters in Iowa to withhold support from rival Mitt Romney because of his Mormon faith, while criticizing the former Massachusetts governor’s economic record.
“I don’t think a person’s faith ought to be a plus or minus,” Huckabee, a former Arkansas governor, said in an interview with Bloomberg Television’s “Political Capital with Al Hunt,” scheduled to air today. “I would not want to think that people vote for me only because I’m a Christian.”
But for a state where one-third nearly half openly admit that being a Mormon is a negative, it doesn’t hurt to remind everyone who’s Mormon and who’s “Christian.”
Tags: anti-mormon, evangelicals, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney
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31 December 2007 at 9:32 am
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2 January 2008 at 1:58 pm
jayne
Just a quick comment on a political cartoon in a recent (Saturday, I think) The State newspaper. The cartoonist had drawn pictures of Obama, Clinton, Huckabee, and Romney, and each was holding a card. Obama’s said “Race Card,” Clinton’s said “Gender Card,” Huckabee’s said, “Religion Card,” and Romney’s said “Master Card.” I thought that was pretty positive coming from a largely Southern Baptist newspaper.