There is a big hype among the news media and the citizens when a person decides to run for President of the United States. Concerns, questions, and accusations fly everywhere to persuade people to either support or oppose the candidate. They look through the candidate’s past to see what his stance is on critical topics (and whether it has changed over the years), what he believes in, and whether he will uphold the Constitution to their standards. This was true when Mitt Romney ran for president in the 2008 election. One of the largest concerns people had when he announced he was running was that he was a Mormon. To the world, not very many people know what Mormons believe or how they act. In response to these concerns, Romney gave a speech on December 6th, 2007 entitled ``Faith in America.’’ In his speech he uses direct quotation, allusion, and anecdote to appeal to the United States, specifically to the Republican party affiliates, about how his faith and his politics would influence his work specifically, but also about how religion plays a role in America generally.

In this essay, Lewis presents how the 2012 Presidential Candidate, Mitt Romney, appealed to core-American values through his religion, and gained support for his candidacy. Check it out today!