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WASHINGTON (AFP) – US voters are uncomfortable with the idea of a president who is a Mormon, even as Massachusetts ex-governor Mitt Romney, a member of that church, leads the pack of Republican White House hopefuls, a poll released Wednesday found.

According to the Quinnipiac poll, only 45 percent of registered voters had a favorable view of Mormonism, while 32 percent had an unfavorable view. Only atheists and Muslims had less support in the survey.

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I suspect that if not for Proposition 8 mega-support from the LDS Church, Romney would be doing better in the polls. Oh yeah, also if Yahoo News wasn't so anti-mormon. Poll takers should run their results past the Deseret News first to make it more faith promoting.

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Moksha,
Your brownish font color is getting dangerously close to that used by the mod squad!

So, why are Muslims lumped in with atheists as the people least likely to support a Mormon?

One of my Muslim friends often expressed how he felt Islam was similar to Mormonism. This came from things like: fasting, praying daily, modesty, supporting the religion financially, Mecca/Temple square, etc..

zeezrom wrote:So, why are Muslims lumped in with atheists as the people least likely to support a Mormon?

No, it's that those two are even less likely to receive votes than a Mormon candidate.

Thanks krose

Only 45% after all the PR campaigns? I don't care what a person's religious beliefs are for president.

DarkHelmet wrote:Only 45% after all the PR campaigns? I don't care what a person's religious beliefs are for president.

What, if any, background influences on the thinking of a candidate do you care about?

sock puppet wrote:What, if any, background influences on the thinking of a candidate do you care about?

Here is my test endorsed by interviewer Space Ghost:

1. Are you a leprechaun?

Once that is cleared up I'm satisfied.

sock puppet wrote:

DarkHelmet wrote:Only 45% after all the PR campaigns? I don't care what a person's religious beliefs are for president.

What, if any, background influences on the thinking of a candidate do you care about?

I don't really care. Sarah Palin has nutty religious views, but that's not why I will never vote for her. I will never vote for her because she is dumb. She is also clueless because she doesn't know she's dumb.

Americans are a diverse group, with a variety of background influences in our lives. We have had presidents who personally are scum bags, like Bill Clinton, who turn out to be effective Presidents. Reagan was outwardly religious, but effective as President. Carter was a very decent human being, filled with integrity, but a horrible President. I wish selecting the President was a scientific process, but we never know who is up for the job until they are in it. I just listen to what a candidate says and try to get a feel for how effective that person would be at leading the country, and look at their past record and see what their previous experience as a leader was like. Where they stand on the issues doesn't matter too much to me because we don't necessarily know what the issues will be for the next 4 years. During the 2000 debates, nobody asked Bush or Gore how they would react to a terrorist attack on our country. I just want a strong leader.

zeezrom wrote:... Islam was similar to Mormonism. This came from things like: fasting, praying daily, modesty, supporting the religion financially, Mecca/Temple square, etc..

And the uneducated "prophet" as the founder.

This attribute only makes me these ..ehm.. groups (sects, denominations, directions, drifts, schools, sets, streams, tendencies, tenors, trend-lines, trends, wings Iamfightingwithforeignlanguage) unacceptable.
In general.

I don't care anybody of US presidents. (And church presidents in many level.)

I don't care any of LDS's presidents. Or any overlapping.

I know many ward's presidenst, of Hungary. OK, not many, only three or four of them.
I am desperate. Working society(es) should produce any way out of blind alleies (alleys? alleis? alleies? allllxxxx?).

It is my poll.