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November 22, 2011 | 11:28 pm

Poll: Romney likely to lose votes over Mormon faith

Posted by Brad A. Greenberg

No kidding:

About half of all voters, and 60% of evangelical Republicans, know that Mitt Romney is a Mormon. The former Massachusetts governor’s religion has implications for his nomination run but not for the general election, should he be nominated as his party’s standard bearer.

White evangelical Protestants – a key element of the GOP electoral base – are more inclined than the public as a whole to view Mormonism as a non-Christian faith. And this view is linked to opinions about Romney: Republicans who say Mormonism is not a Christian religion are less likely to support Romney for the GOP nomination and offer a less favorable assessment of him generally. But they seem prepared to overwhelmingly back him in a run against Obama in the general election.

These are the principal findings from a new national survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press and the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, conducted Nov. 9-14 among 2,001 adults, including 1,576 registered voters. In the race for the GOP nomination, Romney trails Herman Cain by nine points (26% to 17%) among white evangelical Republican and Republican-leaning voters. Romney leads among white mainline Protestant Republicans (26% to 17% over Cain) and runs about even with Cain among white Catholic Republican voters (26% Romney, 23% Cain).

Read the rest of the study from the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life here. Still, as mentioned last week, I think that Romney is the clear Republican nominee to take on President Obama. For the first time in a long time, I’m not convinced that religion—at least not religion of presidential candidates—is going to be a major issue in the election.

Religious beliefs of voters, though, is a different matter.

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For this topic it is intersting to be a Jew. Most Jews can’t tell Christians of any variety apart without a scorecard, even whan advised of the differences. “I see, so you guys think Mary was divine… And you other guys say that bread and wine is transubstantiated into the body and blood of Christ… The Council of Trent, you say? And you fought The Hundred Years War over what? Of course, of course… I think I got that one wrong on my SAT’s, haha…”

From our point of view, a Mormon is a Baptist is a Catholic is a Greek Orthodox. What is clear is that Romney is backed by the Democrats to be the Republican candidate. Because the media is playing whack-a-mole with every Republican contender except Romney.

Comment by Ben Plonie on 11/24/11 at 10:09 pm

Gingrich is a viable contender atm.  he’s a fascist with contempt for the Constitution, and they like that very much.

Comment by Proton Soup on 11/25/11 at 2:09 pm

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