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Now we have proof that was another one of this election year\u2019s cycles of baseless hype. A new Pew survey released Thursday found that eight in 10 voters either are either completely \u201ccomfortable\u201d with Romney being a Mormon or simply don\u2019t care. White evangelicals are slightly more skeptical, but the poll found that it made no difference in how ardently they support Romney.<\/p>\n

This is exactly what always happens, despite how the media treat the evangelical dance with the GOP as more than the charade it is. To be sure, conservative Christian leaders would always love a more visibly on-fire believer like Rick Santorum. But as a few commentators were sharp enough to realize back in the spring, there was never any doubt that evangelicals, one of the GOP\u2019s most committed demographics, would turn out to support whomever the party nominates. They see it as their duty to vote, and virtually any Republican candidate is better than the socialist Muslim that some of them believe President Obama to be.
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