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Despite the increased attention to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney\u2019s Mormon religion, a new survey released Thursday shows that a majority of Americans cannot identify the former Massachusetts governor\u2019s religion.<\/div>\n
The survey by Washington, D.C.-based Public Religion Research Institute found that only four-in-10 Americans know that Romney is Mormon.\u00a0The figure has not changed since July<\/a>, when the research and polling organization last conducted a survey on Americans\u2019 knowledge of the candidate\u2019s religion.<\/div>\n
That lack of change contrasts with\u00a0the increasingly heated conversation over whether a largely Protestant nation is uneasy with a Mormon president<\/a>. The issue,\u00a0which has long haunted Romney\u2019s presidential aspirations<\/a>, was reignited last month after a popular Texas minister and prominent supporter of Texas Gov. Rick Perry\u00a0called Mormonism a \u201ccult.\u201d<\/a><\/div>\n
While the new survey did not find an overall change in knowledge about Romney\u2019s religion, it did find that more white evangelical Protestants can identify Romney as Mormon \u2014 53 percent of white evangelical Protestants said Romney is Mormon, up 9 percentage points since July.<\/div>\n
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