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Romney’s Mormon faith a hurdle in primaries but not in a general election

By Shira Schoenberg

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  November 23, 2011

Mitt Romney’s Mormon faith could hurt him in the Republican presidential primary, but is unlikely to affect his support in the general election, according to a new poll by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life. The poll found that Romney’s religion could hurt him with white evangelical Protestants– an important voting bloc in the Republican primaries. Among the evangelical voters polled, more than half (53 percent) said they did not think of Mormons as Christians.

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