Several dozen Mormon Democrats packed the second floor meeting room of a Holiday Inn here Tuesday for an event that was part political rally and part support session: an address from the modern icon of Latter-day Saint liberalism: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
Setting aside his typical combative tone, Reid sought to reassure and rally a political minority that has spent much of this year under heavy scrutiny — and sometimes intense judgement — by their conservative coreligionists, who wonder how any true Mormon could fail to support Mitt Romney. Reid said he could relate.
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