Gallup: 22% Say They Wouldn't Vote for a Mormon

Gallup’s latest poll of American adults asks: “Between now and the 2012 political conventions, there will be discussion about the qualifications of presidential candidates — their education, age, religion, race, and so on. If your party nominated a generally well-qualified person for president who happened to be a Mormon, would you vote for that person?”

The results: 76 percent of Americans say they would vote for a well-qualified Mormon, while 22 percent say they would not. The bias is more pronounced among Democrats: 27 percent say they wouldn’t vote for a Mormon, while 18 percent of Republicans and 19 percent of independents say the same.