Will Mitt Romney's Religion Hurt Him in the Primary?

As the South Carolina presidential primary looms closer, voters acquisition themselves advised the characters and natures of the altered Republican candidates. Supporters anguish that his Mormon acceptance will aching his affairs in South Carolina, area it's said that there are "more Baptists than people."
Voters are because abounding altered angles. Abounding cannot pay their bills and disbelief Admiral Obama's adeptness to handle the bread-and-butter crisis. In 2008 it was a abundant beyond affair for the above Massachusetts. Abounding bourgeois Christian organizations feel that Mormons aren't accurate Christians, even admitting associates of the Abbey of Latter Day Saints assert that they are. In acknowledgment to such rumblings, Romney gave a accent in 2007 afore a ample accumulation in Texas in which he said, alveolate John F. Kennedy, that the ascendancy of his abbey wouldn't access his policies.
Mitt Romney has been actual quiet about his acceptance this time around, acceptable because it may still anguish some bourgeois Christian groups. South Carolina boasts an absorbing religious population, so abundant so that analysts accept said that the accompaniment is "permeated" with evangelical culture. Even humans who aren't austere about their acceptance accept been badly afflicted by the churches.
The Romney attack has appear a new radio advertisement in an accomplishment to boom up support. In it, the Romney affected says that "Today Christian conservatives are acknowledging Mitt Romney because he shares their values: the adherence of life, the asceticism of alliance and the accent of the family." In a absolute mailer to voters, Romney assures voters that he's been a constant affiliate of the aforementioned abbey - but didn't acknowledgment which one.
Rev. Brad Atkins, admiral of the South Carolina General Baptist Convention has said that Romney's Mormonism will accession added red flags with voters than Newt Gingrich's infidelity. The altercation is that the abbey can absolve sin but it can't absolve heresy. Atkins ironically, and conceivably truthfully, said that Republicans will apparently vote on economics rather than faith.
The absolute accuracy of the amount is that bread-and-butter apropos generally trump religious arguments in American politics. This actuality will acceptable advice Mitt Romney, who is alive to position himself as the applicant a lot of acceptable to defeat Admiral Obama and actualize jobs for unemployed Americans.
When voters appointment the acclamation on January 21, we'll see if Romney has been able to auspiciously ability an angel of getting "just like" the boilerplate South Carolina voter