Pew poll: 41% of Republican and Republican-leaning white evangelicals who attend church weekly express reservations about voting for a Mormon
December 6, 2007 3:30 pm Christian Right and Mormonism, Christian Right and GOP
Among voters in general:
Munson: While it is striking that the Pew poll found that 25% of the general electorate would be less likely to vote for a Mormon candidate, it is even more striking that 61% would be less likely to vote for a candidate who did not believe in God.
Pew Forum: How the Public Perceives Romney, Mormons, December 4, 2007
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Scott Keeter, Director of Survey Research, Pew Research Center
Gregory Smith, Research Fellow, Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life
December 4, 2007
Overall, one-in-four respondents to a recent nationwide Pew survey said that they would be less likely to vote for a Mormon candidate for president, and those who take this point of view express substantially more negative views of Romney, compared with those who express no such reservations about voting for a Mormon….
Though Mormonism is viewed as far less of a liability for a presidential candidate than not believing in God or being a Muslim, more people do express reservations about voting for a Mormon (25%) than about supporting a candidate who is an evangelical Christian (16%), a Jew (11%) or a Catholic (7%).Furthermore, the group of Americans most likely to say they value religiosity in a president - white evangelical Protestants - is also the group most apt to be bothered by his religion. More than one-in-three evangelical Republicans (36%) expressed reservations about voting for a Mormon, a level of opposition much higher than that seen among the electorate overall.