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2013.
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A persistent challenge for minority candidates is mitigating negative effects attributed to their unpopular group identity. This was precisely the case for Mitt Romney, a Mormon, as he sought and captured the 2012 Republican presidential nomination. We draw on existing public opinion data about the tepid reaction to Romney's Mormonism from within Republican ranks. Then, we review our own experimental data to examine a potential mitigation strategy, "God Talk," and its emotional costs to the GOP. We find that Romney and similar candidates may avoid direct penalty by party rank-and-file for their minority attributes when using God Talk, but the associated affective response supporters direct at their party may carry yet-unknown putative costs for both party and candidate.
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070784
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2006.
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Salt Lake City Mormonism has long utilised its beliefs toward geopolitical ends. From its beginning in 1830, it never fully accepted the notion that religion exists primarily to promote private faith and moral interpersonal conduct. After a late nineteenth-century compromise between Mormonism and the American state, however, the movement's overt geopolitical agenda crumbled. Leaders and members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints cast their lots with the national geopolitical agenda and, for a time, a uniquely Mormon geopolitical voice faded. By the decades after mid-century, however, a more coherent Mormon geopolitical message again emerged. This strongly Americanist discourse utilised Mormon doctrine and prophecies to point toward the last days and Zion's triumph. Yet new conceptions of global space often promote different geopolitical visions. This paper argues that post-Cold War Mormon geopolitical eschatology has diminished greatly on an official level, even if a more unofficial, less coherent discourse remains.
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