“Ultimately, what I like about Paul is he wants to*protect my liberty.* I feel like Ron Paul embodies*what Republicans are supposed to be.”
HENDERSON, Nevada*–*The Ron Paul 2012 Presidential campaign is winning over Latter-day Saints in this key early voting state, using policy stances that make Dr. Paul the preferred candidate to Mitt Romney, whose support among this voting population is derived from church fellowship.
Mormon votes targeted in GOP presidential campaign
By Laura Myers
Las Vegas Review-Journal
When Mormons fled Mexico a century ago to escape the country’s revolutionary guns, Dewaine Brown’s mother was among the children returning to the United States with their families.
Another child, the father of GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney, also joined the exodus as members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints abandoned their colonies.
“They left everything behind. All their homes were burned” by revolutionaries after the 1912 evacuation, Brown said. “Church authorities told them to go anywhere in the U.S. to get started again.”
That shared past and common religion are what drew Brown to back Romney for president, both four years ago in Nevada and again in 2012.
“I’ve never shaken hands with him, but I know the history and the family,” said Brown, 81, of Las Vegas. “He’s a problem-solver. I read Mitt Romney was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, but he has served others.”
In the face of such deep devotion, Rep. Ron Paul of Texas is trying to chip away at Romney’s Mormon support in the Silver State. The Mormon bloc accounted for one-quarter of Nevada’s GOP caucus-goers in 2008, according to exit polls, and could be a decisive factor in the Feb. 4 GOP presidential caucus in two weeks….
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