JoeB131
Diamond Member
Gallup has made similar findings in the past, but this is interesting.
Bias Against a Mormon Presidential Candidate Same as in 1967
But there is a silver lining for this for Mittens... A lot of people don't know he's a Mormon, yet.
Of course, the usual crowd will whine about bigotry and prejudice and the usually invectives like "better a Mormon than a Keynan Muslim Marxist!!!" But I think it's telling that Romney has gone out of his way not to talk about his religion.
My own opinion is "82% unaware of how batshit crazy Mormons actually are" would have been a better headline.
Bias Against a Mormon Presidential Candidate Same as in 1967
Negativity toward a Mormon candidate increases from 10% among Republicans to 18% among independents to 24% among Democrats
But there is a silver lining for this for Mittens... A lot of people don't know he's a Mormon, yet.
It can be assumed that most Americans knew Kennedy was a Catholic, given the high level of visibility JFK's religion received in the campaign -- although Gallup did not assess that directly in 1960. In the current poll, however, 57% of Americans can correctly identify that Mitt Romney is a Mormon. The rest either misidentify him as a Christian or Catholic, or as having no religion, or simply say they don't know.
Of course, the usual crowd will whine about bigotry and prejudice and the usually invectives like "better a Mormon than a Keynan Muslim Marxist!!!" But I think it's telling that Romney has gone out of his way not to talk about his religion.
My own opinion is "82% unaware of how batshit crazy Mormons actually are" would have been a better headline.