“There’s tons of idiots in the world,” said Chuck Warren, a Republican consultant who has worked with numerous Mormon candidates. But the “vast majority of Americans,” he argued, wouldn’t care. “I really don’t think the country does that kind of litmus test at this point in our history,” Warren said. “People change religions, it’s America.”
Considerable skepticism about Mormonism still exists, particularly among white evangelicals. Thirty-one percent of all Americans and 47 percent of white evangelical Protestants think Mormonism is not a Christian religion, according to Pew.
But it’s not clear that Romney needs to worry about those voters: Among white evangelical Republican voters, 91 percent said in November that they would back Romney over Obama in a general election matchup.
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