Romney Rejected: Over a Fifth of Americans Eschew a Mormon President

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Perhaps Americans aren’t so crazy after all

According to the National Journal, a new Gallup poll found that “22 percent of Americans would not vote for candidate who was a Mormon.”

What, one might ask, is the issue with the Church of Latter-day Saints?  Why all the haters?

Perhaps it has something to do with the notion that Mormons believe that if they’re very, very good, they can become gods themselves and have planets of their own full of little Mormon children.

Or not.  It could just be that Mormonism is scary because it is different, and isolationist he’s-not-like-us beliefs swarm like locusts during election season.

Both former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, and former Utah governor Jon Huntsman are members of the crazy-but-not-super-scary church.  Huntsman plans to announce his candidacy tomorrow.

Good news for Smith-lovers, though:  NJ also notes that “the year before John F. Kennedy was elected, becoming the nation’s first Catholic president, a quarter of Americans said they would not vote for a Catholic.”