PROVO – Did unreported factors contribute to the demise of Mitt Romney’s 2008 presidential campaign?
How did the news media cover the 1967-68 presidential campaign of his father, George Romney?
Two research projects presented to an audience of more than 100 people at BYU’s Mormon Media Studies Symposium recently compared the two Romneys’ campaigns.
BYU professors John Gee and Louis C. Midgley titled their paper, “Under the Media’s Nose: Overlooked Factors Undermining the Presidential Campaign of Mitt Romney.
The paper, presented by Gee, provided history and background on a culture of spiritual warfare waged by evangelicals against other denominations that view themselves as Christian but are deemed cults by evangelicals.
“They are against what they see as cults … and define themselves as counter-cults,” Gee said. “They have been attacking Latter-day Saints for years.”
As an example, Gee told of an instance some years ago when Mormons and evangelicals attempted to band together against pornography in Philadelphia, but the evangelicals couldn’t stand to be in the same room with the Mormons. “They found pornography to be more tolerable than the Latter-day Saints,” Gee said.
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