There is no way a member of the LDS church is ever going to be elected President of the United States. It's far too easy for the media to attack, and most people have a negative reaction to the religion.
The same could be said about Christianity at the time of Christ and for the first few years afterwars.
There are a lot of misperceptions and half-truths out there still about the LDS church IMHO. Like some lady was trying to convince me, a member, that polygamy is still practice today because she saw it on TV so it must be true. Sheesh
Surprisingly, LDS figures such as Romney tend to get more favorable treatment from the liberal media than one might expect, and for many of the same reasons highlighted by the critical evangelical baptists quoted in this article. The chief reasons are that Mormons are not evangelicals and thought by many on the left not to be Christian.
And yet the LDS Church is every bit as socially conservative as as any fundamental baptist faith. This results in some rather curious media coverage.
However, Romney is out of the mainstream in terms of traditional LDS social conservatism. Had he remained in Utah after the Olympics he would have fit in more easily as a Democrat than as a Republican.
I'm not mormon, but I disagree.