Thursday, June 12, 2008

Mormon mobilization

Matthew Yglesias quotes a commenter on his site,

"Implications of the Mormon grassroots mobilization if Romney gets picked to be McCain's VP. I say it makes Nevada and Colorado tougher for the Democrats to pick up, and Michigan also, though not so much for the LDS factor."


Yglesias responds thusly, "I think that's right."

Yikes.

Matt is a smart guy but I think he's under the impression that Colorado has some sort of very large Mormon population given that we are neighbors with the state of Utah. In fact Colorado has about 126,000 Mormons in the entire state. That puts us at 9th in the nation in terms of raw numbers. As a percentage of our population Mormons make up about 2.6% of the total population. That's a very small percentage, well behind the state with the 10th highest percentage of Mormons - Washington state at 3.9%. And remember these are the total number of Mormons living in the state, not the total number of Mormon voters. That number will be even smaller.

In short, no Matt - Mormons will not swing Colorado for McCain if Romney is placed on the ballot.

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