The next president's religion

[Mister Mets]

I'd bet on Catholics for the reasons mentioned in the first post. It almost seems as if the majority of potential top-tier candidates, on both sides, are Catholic.

The top non-Hillary Democratic candidates are Catholic: Joe Biden, and Andrew Cuomo. There's also Antonio Villaraigosa, Julian Castro and

And then there are the top-tier Republican candidates: Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, Chris Christie and Paul Ryan. And then there's Susana Martinez, Bobby Jindal, Rick Santorum and Bob McDonnell.

It's not even certain that there will be any Jewish candidates, although Charles Schumer, Rahm Emanuel and Eric Cantor are possibilities. Although I wouldn't even say they're strong possibilities. I guess if both parties nominate controversial figures, Bloomberg might enter. But he'll be 74.

As for Mormons, Huntsman is a possible candidate. Especially since two of the other potential moderate candidates (Scott Brown, David Petraeus) had bad weeks, which likely disqualified them from running for Prez, leaving little competition for the slot.

There aren't a lot of Evangelical contenders. On the Republican side, Huckabee is a possibility.

The Democratic frontrunner (Hillary Clinton) is a mainline Protestant. As is Mark Warner (who would probably be top-tier if he ran) and are a few of the potential second-tier candidates (Rand Paul, Howard Dean).