Mitt Romney?

How much do you believe Mitt Romney being a Mormon effected his run to be the Republican candidate for Presidancy?

Public Comments

1. I don't think it had much to do with it at all. Even republicans are wising up and seeing that you can't vote based on a person's religion. I don't care if he sits next to me at Mass. I don't vote for republicans. EDIT: Mormons are NOT Christians in that they don't believe in the sole deity of Christ. Their "bible" is different from ours...it has been supplemented with a book they believe fell out of a tree and hit their prophet in the head. The Protestant and Catholic Bible says "In the beginning the Word was with God and the Word was God." Theirs says "In the beginning the word was with God and the word was A god." Little word, HUGE difference. They also believe that native Americans are descendants of Cain and are marked with red skin because they are the descendants of a murderer. All that said, I don't care about a person's religion. I have a harder time with Huckabee coming off as a southern Baptist than I do Romney being a Mormon, and I have to embrace Baptists as Christians!
2. I think it effected him greatly. I am ashamed to say that people fear what they don't know and would rather just shy away from it rather than investigate it. I was told by a close friend the other day that Mormons are not Christians. She truly believes this because she knows nothing about the Religion. She, like many Americans view it as more of a cult and have never looked in to the Religion to see what it as all about. This is one of the things that scares me most.
3. It perhaps had some effect upon those among the religious right, but I would say that his Mormonism was negligible in the final vote tally. I think a much more palpable influence was the impression that he was just a tad too slick and all too willing to spend his considerable personal fortune to "buy" the nomination. I hate paraphrasing Huckabee, but he had a good point: most Americans feel comfortable voting for someone that they might work with rather than someone that they might work for. Cheers.
4. His religion did not affect my opinion of him his flip flopping did.
5. Unfortunately it did. I think just the fact that so many people ask this question show that it's an issue.
6. It really pointed out the bigotry that still exists towards Mormons. Also it pointed out that it is one of the few "acceptable" bigotries left. You can make fun of Mormons, their beliefs, their culture, and even tell lies about their beliefs and culture, and everyone just smiles. If you made fun of or told lies about blacks, women, Latin Americans, or any other group, the media would be all over it. I think Huckabee was the worst for this, which is the most disheartening since he purports to be a Christian, and right in the Bible it says "Love One Another" and yet, very unloving towards Mormons. But I take heart in the fact that Romney got more votes yesterday in Washington than Huckabee, and Romney isn't even campaigning anymore! Go Mitt! I think that he would have been such a good president, people don't even know how lucky they would have been, and how foolish they were to let something like religion play the role it did. We are all congratulating ourselves for coming so far that Hillary or Obama could be candidates for President, but I don't think congratulations are in order here.