Politics
Election 2012:McCain voters defecting to Obama are older white males
He’s basing his vote on a general sense that “Obama is more for the whole country than Romney is,” alluding to the leaked video. “Romney, that’s his honest feelings. He doesn’t really care about the 47 percent.”
Waltrip also believes Romney is out of touch with lower-income Americans, and he mistrusts the candidate’s religious convictions.
“I’ve always felt like the Mormon Church was more of a cult,” Waltrip said. “I’m sort of afraid that his interests are going to be strictly for the Mormon Church.”
Overall about 34 percent of likely voters said they would be less likely to vote for a presidential candidate if he or she were Mormon, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted during the week ending October 21.
The defectors to Obama remain a smaller subset of respondents than those who voted for him in 2008 and now support Romney. The Reuters/Ipsos polling shows 10 percent of voters plan to cross the aisle in that direction.
