Most voters continue to say it is important for a president to have strong religious beliefs. But voters have limited awareness of the religious faiths of both Mitt Romney and Barack Obama. And there is little evidence to suggest that concerns about the candidates\u2019 respective faiths will have a meaningful impact in the fall elections.
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The latest national survey by the Pew Research Center\u2019s Forum on Religion & Public Life and the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, conducted June 28-July 9, 2012, among 2,973 adults, including 2,373 registered voters, finds that 60% of voters are aware that Romney is Mormon, virtually unchanged from four months ago, during the GOP primaries.<\/p>\n
The vast majority of those who are aware of Romney\u2019s faith say it doesn\u2019t concern them. Fully eight-in-ten voters who know Romney is Mormon say they are either comfortable with his faith (60%) or that it doesn\u2019t matter to them (21%). <\/p>\n