Posted on 07/25/2011 4:25:41 PM PDT by freespirited
If the Mitt Romney campaign has worries that the candidate's Mormon faith may be an insurmountable obstacle to the White House, they may take solace from one recent survey: According to the Public Religion Research Institute and Religion News Service, only 40% of Americans identify Romney as a Mormon.
46% claim they do not know the candidate's faith and 10% figured him to be a Protestant or Catholic. Incidentally these numbers mirror those of the man Romney is seeking to unseat, President Barack Obama. Four in ten Americans do not know the president's faith, 18% believe he is a Muslim and only a quarter correctly listed him as a Protestant.
Many Americans tell pollsters they are uncomfortable with a Mormon candidate. A recent Quinnipac poll found that while a majority of 60% of Americans are either entirely or somewhat comfortable with a Mormon president, this figure is less than those accepting of a Catholic of Jewish head of state, 83% and 80% respectively. 54% of African Americans and roughly 40% of women are uncomfortable with a Mormon president. The latter may be due to the church's history of excluding blacks from the priesthood and the past doctrine of polygamy.* The church has long disavowed polygamy and the exclusion of blacks from the priesthood was lifted in 1976.
(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com ...
If Romney gets the nomination his Mormon religion will become a big issue after he gets the nomination and it is too late. There will be billions of dollars spent on negative advertising. A lot of people, especially in the south, will not vote for a Mormon. They will vote third party. 0bama and the media are waiting to spring thier trap.
... meaning more than half don’t care. Drop it.
1912
It was also 1912 that the illegal alien Romneys snuck across the border into our country...
They didnt sign any promise that they were not polygamists..
True enough, if less than half know, you can bet that a fair number of those don’t care.
How many know that Harry Reid is also a mormon...as well as being dinghy.
They’ll all know if he runs against The Bamster.
Half of Americans don’t know what a Mormom IS! Unfortunately, I’m serious!
Romney’s a Mormon? Seriesly?? This is HUGH!!!
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29½ posted on 07/25/2011 8:02:08 PM EDT by Myth Romney (A Scout is: Trustworthy, Loyal, Helpful, Gay, Courteous, Kind, Gay, Cheerful, Thrifty, Gay, Clean, and Gay.)
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If you want off my ping list get over it!
Most church going black voters mistakenly think Barak Obama believes in the divinity of Jesus Christ.
Less than 50% of Americans know Mitt is alive.
Romney is the best liberal democrat in the race so far.
cripple,
Romney’s great-grandfather, Miles Park Romney, married his fifth wife in 1897. That was more than six years after Mormon leaders banned polygamy and more than three decades after a federal law barred the practice.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,254362,00.html#ixzz1TATNRBKH
Your post is a sham and a farce. In fact, its a farce of a sham.
Mittens IS an anchor Baby!
LOL
cripplecreek was I think just showing hoew his own monogamous ancestor had to sign and swear that he was not a polygamist before he could enter the US the same year that the polygamist Romney and his family snuck into the country under the radar and without that same necessary paperwork....
George Romney, Willie Mitty’s dad, was one of those children, and the first generation of Romneys for generations who appears to have had no extra wives like his own dad, grandfather and great grandfather
I just thought it was interesting that such things were even asked back then. My great grandfather was somewhere between 9 and 13 at that time anyway.
We’ve been digging around in the family tree and finding old documents in Michigan and Wisconsin. I discovered that my grandfather began his life as a Catholic but became a Methodist during WWII. Nobody in the family ever talked about it so I assumed he had always been Methodist.
Say it ain’t so!
actually I was LOL at # 29 1/2
:)
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