Poll: Mormon enthusiasm high for Romney candidacy

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many in the Church are concerned the media will portray their faith
unfairly, and an equal amount — 68 percent — say Romney’s nomination
will bring at least some bad publicity for Mormonism.

A Gallup
poll released earlier in the month showed that registered Mormon voters
overwhelmingly favored Romney. Some 84 percent of Mormons surveyed in
that poll said they would vote for Romney, versus just 13 percent for
President Obama. That’s a marked improvement over Republicans’ already
dominant numbers among Mormon voters; in 2008, John McCain pulled 75
percent of the Mormon vote, versus 19 percent for Obama.

But a
separate Gallup poll released last week found that Romney’s faith could
keep some voters at home. According to the survey, 18 percent of
respondents said they would not vote for a Mormon.