So, if Hillary's in it to win, Mitt Romney's in it to lose. NO WAY a Mormon is going to be prez. Black? Female? Maybe. Mormon, sorry, no dice. And it's not the religion, per se...it's the polygamy. And no matter how you dress up the Mormons, that's the elephant in their living room.
CNN ...However, as Romney tries to woo those voters, his religion may present an obstacle. Romney is a member of the Utah-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, commonly known as the Mormon Church, which some conservative evangelicals view as a non-Christian, cultlike organization.
"I think there will be attacks on Romney that will be launched by third-party groups about his religion," said David Magleby, a dean at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, a Mormon institution where Romney received a bachelor's degree in 1971. "I think that's almost a certainty."