Two thirds of Americans OK with Mormon candidate
Roughly two out of three Americans say it makes no difference to them
if a presidential candidate is Mormon, according to a new Pew Research
Center poll, although evangelicals are more cautious.
The poll
found that 68 percent of respondents said a candidate's Mormon faith
would not matter, while one in four said they would be less likely to
support a Mormon.
White evangelicals were most likely to care
about a candidate's Mormon faith, with one third of them saying they
would be less likely to support a Mormon candidate, compared to 24
percent of the religiously unaffiliated and 19 percent of Catholics and
white mainline Protestants.
