Mitt Romney made history the other day by being the first US Senator in history to vote against a president of his own party in a Senate impeachment trial. Given the religious language he used to explain why he chose to vote guilty on one impeachment article, many are curious about how his religion influenced this decision. In my view, Senator Romney had both religious and political reasons to find Trump guilty. Using statewide polling data from Utah made publicly available from UtahPolicy.com and Y2 Analytics, and the 2016 Cooperative Congressional Election Study, I will explain how the dynamics of political support in Utah made it easier for Romney to take this stand than his fellow co-religionist Senator Mike Lee. CONT.
Matt Miles (Brigham Young U.-Idaho), Religion in Public