{"id":15987,"date":"2016-10-21T17:47:39","date_gmt":"2016-10-22T00:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=15987"},"modified":"2016-10-22T12:36:51","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T19:36:51","slug":"toss-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2016\/10\/21\/toss-up\/","title":{"rendered":"“toss up”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well la de freaking da<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Utah is about 60% Mormon, and Trump is not the favorite of Mormons in any state, as far as we can tell. McMullin is only on the ballot in 11 states, but among those is heavily Republican Idaho, which has the nation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s second-highest percentage of Mormons (the state is about a quarter Mormon). The only recent poll there did not include McMullin, but it showed Trump at only a weak 40% of the vote, up 10 points on Clinton. McMullin is moving into Idaho as well, holding two well-attended rallies in the state over the weekend. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re pushing Idaho from Safe Republican to Likely Republican just as a way to flag that the McMullin conservative insurgency has spread there as well. Trump is a much clearer favorite there than he is in Utah, however.<\/em><\/p>\n

The problem is … he is the Mormon Candidate ™, and his support appears to be stuck with Mormon Republicans looking for a way out of Trump and<\/a> …<\/p>\n

Utah Republicans \u00e2\u20ac\u201c particularly those who are members of the Mormon Church \u00e2\u20ac\u201c have been rejecting Trump in large numbers, led by Gov. Gary Herbert and two GOP members of Congress. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s provided an opening for McMullin, in a state where 63 percent of the population is Mormon.
\nIn Idaho, 27 percent of residents are Mormon<\/em>.<\/p>\n

… Still.\u00c2\u00a0 Fun if two states flip to some designated color not red or blue.\u00c2\u00a0 (Or, for that matter, if Utah somehow goes ‘blue’ here.)<\/p>\n

This does give us an interesting question.\u00c2\u00a0 To certain Utah residents.\u00c2\u00a0 If it looks like McMullin has consolidated a vote mass and Hillary Clinton lags behind, should Hillary Clinton voters leap over to McMullin to try to deny Trump these electoral votes?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well la de freaking da. Utah is about 60% Mormon, and Trump is not the favorite of Mormons in any state, as far as we can tell. McMullin is only on the ballot in 11 states, but among those is heavily Republican Idaho, which has the nation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s second-highest percentage of Mormons (the state is about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15987"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15990,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15987\/revisions\/15990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}