{"id":1750,"date":"2012-11-08T09:17:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T09:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2012\/11\/election-results-reveal-god-is-winning.html"},"modified":"2012-11-08T09:17:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-08T09:17:00","slug":"election-results-reveal-god-is-winning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2012\/11\/election-results-reveal-god-is-winning.html","title":{"rendered":"Election results reveal God is winning"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;font-family: arial;font-size: 14px;line-height: 18px;margin-bottom: 22px;padding: 0px;width: auto\">A few days ago, I was lunching with my husband and as we\u2019ve often found ourselves of late, we were discussing the upcoming presidential election. In one sentence, I was expressing my confidence that I felt Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney had an equal chance at the office, of which he agreed, and in the next I confessed my unbelief, or perhaps lack of faith, that this could actually happen. Although considered a very close race, it still seemed so farfetched that America would actually vote in a Mormon as president. Again, my husband agreed.<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;font-family: arial;font-size: 14px;line-height: 18px;margin-bottom: 22px;padding: 0px;width: auto\">And apparently we were right \u2013 kind of \u2014 Romney did not win the election. Our gut instincts were spot on and I imagine this Mormon, among <a href='https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/library\/mormonism' target='_blank'>Mormons<\/a>, was not alone in her private skepticism. Yet I can\u2019t get over the fact that 57 million Americans, and rising, did indeed vote for a Mormon \u2013 and what that says, to me, not only about this country, but also about my faith.<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;font-family: arial;font-size: 14px;line-height: 18px;margin-bottom: 22px;padding: 0px;width: auto\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 22px;padding: 0px;width: auto\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Although a Romney win, by many indicators felt within reach, it didn\u2019t happen. However, the fact that it almost did \u2013 and with very few variables could have \u2013 this reality has changed everything for members of The <a href='https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/library\/mormonism' target='_blank'>Church of Jesus Christ of latter-day Saints<\/a> (Mormon) \u2013 for the good.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 22px;padding: 0px;width: auto\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">We now move forward into an unprecedented season of Mormonism\u2013 just like everything else Mormons have experienced throughout the entire election process\u2013 the unknown \u2013 a place of familiarity. But this time, from this moment on, Mormons in America will never be looked at quite the same.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 22px;padding: 0px;width: auto\">Read the rest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/guest-voices\/post\/election-results-reveal-god-is-winning\/2012\/11\/07\/09ae6a18-2927-11e2-bab2-eda299503684_blog.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago, I was lunching with my husband and as we\u2019ve often found ourselves of late, we were discussing the upcoming presidential election. 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