With the Newt Gingrich surge still in its rosy dawning hours, and in the wake of a debate made most memorable by an aggressively wooden one-liner involving a $10,000 bet and Rick Perry, people who are kind of rooting for Mitt Romney (and kind of rooting is as good as he’s polling these days) are suggesting that candidate Romney should start talking about his Mormonism as a means of seeming, well, more human.
All along, the conventional wisdom has been that Romney should avoid Mormonism, given the uncertainty it engenders in American voters, more than half of whom (according to Pew Center data) profess knowing nothing or next to nothing about our innovative branch of American Protestantism.
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