Despite high discomfort level with presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s Mormonism, the GOP candidate’s ratings aren’t going down | Joel Belz
How many voters does insurance broker Frank Senger of Newport Beach, Calif., represent?
"No way will I be voting for Mitt Romney," he insists. A Republican and a lifelong Baptist, he abhors the thought of voting for a Mormon for president and says "there's more to it than just some prejudice. It bothers me a whole lot that someone that bright could fall for the stories about where Mormonism came from, and all that blather about the golden tablets. If he'll fall for that, do I want him in the same room and at the same table with Kim Jong-il of North Korea or Ahmadinejad from Iran?"
Senger also wonders about "why Romney's changed so many of his positions on key issues. Just seems a little too convenient at this stage of the game for him to become so conservative all of a sudden on abortion, on homosexual marriage—even on some economic issues."
Romney file
Age: 60. Born March 12, 1947, in Detroit, Mich. Son of George Romney, a U.S. auto executive, governor of Michigan, cabinet member, and candidate for president.
Married his high-school sweetheart, Ann Davies, in 1969. Together, they have five sons and 10 grandchildren. Ann Romney was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1998.
The Romneys are active members of The Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints, otherwise known as the Mormon Church. He served for 30 months in his late teens as a missionary of that church to France.
Attended Stanford University, then graduated summa cum laude in 1971 from Brigham Young University. In 1975, finished with graduate degrees in law and business from Harvard University.
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