will Barack Obama be re-elected?

[minionofmidas]

HUCKABEE WILL NOT LOSE UTAH IN 2012!

Or.. IDAHO OR WYOMING

Huckabee (or any other GOP nominee) loses Utah if he alienates the LDS Church and fails to make amends. Mormons will gladly show someone who shows disrespect for the locally-powerful LDS Church that their conservative Republican votes are not to be taken for granted. Obama can make a couple of appearances in the few small-to-large cities of Utah and raise Mormons for taking care of their own while showing a resolute expression of respect for religious diversity -- including the LDS Church.

I may be discussing an unlikely scenario, but one that has yet to be proven impossible. Any Republican who throws away Utah's six electoral votes throws away six electoral votes that the GOP can't afford to lose. For the GOP every electoral vote is precious. It may be up to Mike Huckabee to patch relations between his conservatism and LDS conservatism.

Mormons are used to not being considered wholly human by their allies. They resent it, but they won't rebel over it.

A Mormon candidate would have massive problems with non-Mormon fundamentalist Christians, but not the other way round.

[minionofmidas]

Yeah, I know I worded that too harshly.

[minionofmidas]

But it won't mean little. This is the US presidency for god's sake, and it's held by a godless cosmopolitan negro muslim (not that all Utah Mormons think like that - as viz. Obama doing okayish there in 2008).