Washington, USA - One in 4 people in the United States said in a recent poll that they would be less likely to support a presidential candidate who is Mormon, an ominous sign for Republican contender Mitt Romney.
Yet the survey found two groups, atheists and Muslims, were even less likely to win votes.
Sixty-one percent of those questioned said they would be less likely to support a presidential candidate who did not believe in God. Forty-five percent said the same regarding a Muslim contender.
Only 5 percent or fewer said they would be more likely to support candidates who were atheists, Muslims, or Mormons, according to the poll by two nonpartisan research groups, the Pew Research Center and the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life.
The poll was conducted Aug. 1 to 18 and involved telephone interviews with 3,002 randomly chosen adults. The margin of sampling error was 2 percentage points.