The U.S.’s first Mormon president?

If you have been following the GOP presidential nomination race, then you know that Mitt Romney has gone from frontrunner to an afterthought to frontrunner again after letting all the other interlopers implode.

Now Harold Bloom, the Yale professor of English, asks: “” title=”I didn’t think so”>I didn’t think Romney had a chance. But now I find myself wondering whether that’s true. Romney seems destined to get the GOP nomination and I don’t see Republicans or even right-leaning independents withholding their vote from Romney simply because he is Mormon and not a Protestant Christian.

(For a critical look at Bloom’s op-ed, check out this post from Mark Paredes at the