A few weeks ago, I heard a Mormon man cheerfully recount his recent experience as a missionary in Minnesota. Whenever he and his companion (Mormons always proselyte in twos) were turned away—as happened at most houses—the missionaries always offered to shovel the householder’s snow-packed walk. Just to do a good turn. Plant a seed. Leave a positive impression.
Knock as he might, a lot of doors are closing in Mitt Romney’s face these days. Minnesota. Missouri. Colorado. He may very well lose Michigan, the state his father governed. Polls even suggest that Arizona, which has a large LDS population and has been described as a Romney “firewall,” could be in play for Santorum, a situation not helped by the recent resignation of Romney’s state campaign co-chair the notoriously anti-immigrant Sheriff Paul Babeu, after it was revealed that he was gay and had threatened to deport an undocumented Mexican ex-boyfriend.
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