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Plus, and I realise how unsavoury this will sound, but Mitt's connection to the Mormon church was for me a cause for concern. That is an organisation that has lied to and deceived it's own members and covered up issues from it's past.

Anyone who has studied various cults will be aware of some of those issues.

Had Mitt got in, who is to say what influence they would have tried to wield from behind the scenes.

Barak was the best option there was.