know reverend graham, but he s certainly not from south carolina, not active in south carolina politics. look back to 2008, mitt romney got the endorsement of bob jones iii, a noted evangelical in our state. didn t help very much. he finished fourth or fifth in 2008. i think religion is an issue for folks who aren t from around here. we re going to pick our candidate based upon jobs and the economy, primarily and conservative values after that. well, let me ask mark halperin. is there any way of looking at this objectively at this point whether religion will cut down there, whether we should even be talking about it? i think it s similar to what race was for president obama in some states in 2008. are there people that won t vote for mitt romney because of his religion? i appreciate the congressman s optimism about the state of his state. i suspect there are some but i don t think that will keep him from winning the primary. he might lose a primary for other reasons, but i don t th
we don t know whether he s going to have trouble winning over south carolina evangelicals. i guess the question comes back, franklin graham, by the way, son of billy graham and not billy graham told the new york times it s going to be difficult for romney as a mormon with the evangelical community. for most christians, mormonism is an issue and he has a hurdle here that he s going to have to no whoers pretty far right politically. let s put that on the table. suggesting that mormons are not christians in the very statement he just made there. so he s, obviously, stirring up the pot there. right, congressman? that s not a helpful quote if you are romney. and respectfully, i don t know reverend graham, but he s certainly not from south carolina, not active in south carolina politics. look back to 2008, mitt romney got the endorsement of bob jones iii, a noted evangelical in our state. didn t help very much. he finished fourth or fifth in 2008. i think religion is an issue for folks
i m hopeful i ll get great support, but i know i have a lot of work to do. we don t know whether he ll have trouble winning over south carolina evangelicals. i guess the question comes back franklin graham by the way, son of billy graham oig, told the morning times it s going to be difficult for romney as a mormon with the evangelical community for most christians, mormonism is an issue and he has a hurdle that he ll have to jump over. he s pretty far right politically. suggesting that morgan mons are christians. so he s stirring up the pot, that s not a helpful quote if you re romney. and respectfully, he s not from south carolina. look back to 2008, mitt romney got the endorsement of bob jones iii, a noted evangelical in our state. didn t help very much. i think he finished fourth or fifth. so again, i think religion is an