I'm not sure if it would have cost Obama the election or not if he was Muslim. It very well might have. But, it is a consistant standard in the presidential election that faith is scrutinized.
A key factor that hurt John F. Kennedy in his campaign was the widespread prejudice against his Roman Catholic religion; some Protestants believed that, if he were elected President, Kennedy would have to take orders from the Pope in Rome.
Clearly it was a huge problem for Mitt Romney
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washing...ey-cover_x.htm
Obama took plenty of heat for the church he did belong to.
No president thus far has been a jew, a buddhist, or a hindu. That would likely go over with plenty of resistance.
The only thing Americans seem to be totally comferatable with is some form of church going, god fearing candidate of a protestant denomination.





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