UT/TT Poll: Mormon Candidates Face Hurdle in Texas
[Editor's note: This is the fourth of five stories about the University of Texas/Texas Tribune poll. Monday we looked at Texas voters and the 2012 presidential contest. Tuesday, how voters rate Rick Perry's job performance. Yesterday, the races for U.S. Senate and lieutenant governor. Tomorrow, the most important issues facing the state and the nation.]
The two Mormons running for president — Republicans Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman — face a significant obstacle in Texas. More than one in five Texas voters — 23 percent — say most of the people they know would not vote for a Mormon presidential ...
Comments (12)
Dave Mundy via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Only 55%? Oh, right -- liberal readership.
LuRose Williams via Texas Tribune on Facebook
that is so discriminate !!! The Constitution states three requirements for president:: Be 36 years old, be an American citizen and have lived 6 months in the state in which you were registering to run for office... NOTHING else is politically unjust.
Renee E. Babcock via Texas Tribune on Facebook
This is one of those cases where I'm glad the majority are not making policy. As to the question re Mormons, I'm puzzled why the question was phrased the way it was. Why not just simply as if the respondent would vote for a mormon, instead of asking if the people they know would. I don't think that question was well thought out. How should I know how others would vote? I'm concerned about my own voting patterns and I let others worry about their own.
As for the question about non-citizen residents' tuition rates, people will automatically think this only applies to children of illegals. That's not what the question is, though. The question as I read it from the graph would be *all* non-citizen residents, including those who are here legally, which is arguably the majority of those students. I don't know if this is a case of people not understanding the question, or making inferences into what the question is. Was it intended to be a question only about children of illegal citizens, or was the wording meant to be about all non-citizens? After all, non-citizen =/= illegal alien.
To say non-citizen residents (using that wording) should pay higher tuition is a slippery slope we should not go down.
Renee E. Babcock via Texas Tribune on Facebook
A lot of our strict constitutionalist friends seem to forget the constitution specifically says that there should be no religious test for public office.
Karen Spivey-Cummings via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Renee, I don't think they read that part of the Constitution or just ignore the parts they don't like.
Tom Russell via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I think there should be no difference between in-state and non-resident rates and that there should be financial aid based on need. Why subsidize rich kids who drive their Escalades to UT?
Renee E. Babcock via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Tom, you are describing private colleges.
Terry Stilson via Texas Tribune on Facebook
A non-citizen resident sounds to me like someone who has a visa to study in this country and they should pay out of state rates. Illegal aliens should not be allowed in the country to begin with. There are many people waiting to enter this country legally. Follow the LAW!!!
Lee Crites
1) The question was obviously designed to render a skewed outcome. Shame on those who designed in, and shame on the trib for putting it out like it was a legitimate survey.
2) For those who actually, honestly, said that they, and their friends ("most of the people they know") could not vote for someone due to their religious affiliation, even if they agreed with them on the issues, then shame on them, as well.
Obviously bigotry is very much alive and well on these major Texas university campuses. This is embarrassing to all honest people of this state.
Cris Sleightholm
Texas is a very religion intolerant state...go figure.
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