He may be able to handle it but I can guarantee that as a conservative and how people are scared of “religion” these days and are almost bigoted in regards to it - it will in fact be an issue. There really aren’t a lot of people that are willing to understand that. Maybe that’s just my opinion but from what I saw in my generation this election I have my doubts - the #1 response I got to Palin was that people in my age group were AFRAID of her because she was SUPER RELIGIOUS. She did not perform an actual exorcism - and they thought that. It’s unfortunate that so many people are intolerant of religion today and hopefully that will change and may change in these next 4 yrs. but if not I think my doubts are valid.
People fear Palin’s religion because she is the traditional American protestant, and a true believer.
Jindal is a fine example of a true believing Catholic (I guess that means Roman Catholic?), but Catholicism does not scare the media and all of the rest of the mildly religious and non religious as much as a bible believing, gun toting, protestant, besides being the second Catholic is very Kennedyesque.