{"id":29242,"date":"2011-11-10T16:15:32","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T16:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_survey_finds_deep_challenges_for_romney\/"},"modified":"2011-11-10T16:15:32","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T16:15:32","slug":"rns_survey_finds_deep_challenges_for_romney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29242","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) Survey Finds Deep Challenges for Romney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than four in 10 American voters say they are uncomfortable with the idea of a Mormon in the White House, a reflection of the steep challenge facing Mitt Romney in the GOP primary.<\/p>\n<p>According to a survey released Tuesday (Nov. 8) by the Public Religion Research Institute, Romney faces an identity problem among those who already know he\u2019s a Mormon, and those who don\u2019t but generally have qualms about the faith.<\/p>\n<p>The poll found evangelicals are warming to Romney\u2019s chief rival, businessman Herman Cain, and are also the group that harbors the most unease with Mormonism among all religious groups surveyed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ethicsdaily.com\/survey-finds-deep-challenges-for-romney-cms-18802\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than four in 10 American voters say they are uncomfortable with the idea of a Mormon in the White House, a reflection of the steep challenge facing Mitt Romney in the GOP primary. According to a survey released Tuesday<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29242\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,42,419,428,616,154,155,151,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-religion-news-commentary","category-evangelicals","category-mormons","category-office-of-the-president","category-other-churches","category-other-faiths","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}