As the Republican frontrunner struggles in the US primaries, we ask why he is finding it so hard to close the deal.
From: People & Power
Mitt Romney and the Mormon factor
What is Mormonism and what would a Mormon in the White House mean for US politics and the world?
5 Apr 2012
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