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Will “pulling a JFK” be enough for Romney?
December 03, 2007 10:15 AM
ABC's Senior Political Correspondent Jake Tapper provides analysis:
History shows Kennedy’s address about his faith was just one of many attempts to quell the issue.
He was an attractive candidate, with money, intelligence, and institutional support. But no candidate of his faith had ever been elected president and wherever he went this issue confronted him.
It got to the point that just under two months before the election, then-Sen. John F. Kennedy, D-Mass., had to go before a room of 300 or so Protestant ministers and declare, “I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party's candidate for President who happens also to be a Catholic.”
Kennedy, the first Catholic president, went through a similar experience that his fellow Bay Stater, former Gov. Mitt Romney, a Republican and a Mormon, is experiencing today.
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I have recently heard excerpts from some of John Kennedy's speeches: their memorable phrasing and ringing eloquence carry across the years.
For most of his life, Mitt Romney has lived outside Utah, where one is more likely to stand out for not being a Mormon, although I understand that the non-Mormon population of that state has been growing.
Posted by: Candadai Tirumalai | Dec 3, 2007 11:26:39 AM
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