Romney's and Polygamy as shown by the US Census...

[madinmaryland]

Wife and Wife???

ETA: Gaskill who was 8, is Willard's grandfather.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

1. Good catch.

Now for the bonus question, "How many mother-in-laws did he have?"

[kestrel91316]

2. We know he comes from Mormon polygamist family lines.

So do I. One census shows one of my g-g-g-grandfathers with his TEN wives and all the attendant children, too. Because it was before UT was a state, it showed them as wives (rather than later on when they would report plural wives as sisters or aunts or whatever, or they would set them up in a separate house on the property so you would see clusters of homes with women and kids and no adult male.

[madinmaryland]

3. We also know he is from Mexico...

Line #19 is Willard's father.

[Kali]

4. meh

most all long time mormon families have polygamy in the background

plenty wrong with the religion (all religions) but this past practice is not really relevant to the candidate or the election and only would be if there was some attempt at denial or cover-up

[Warren Stupidity]

6. This candidate claims that marriage has always been one man and one woman.

This candidate's religion and its and his family's polygamous past are an issue because he has made it an issue.

[Kali]

7. ah ok good point

although I am sure there will be the usual god-related convoluted "explanation" - god's etch-a-sketch as it were

still, I don't think he has ever tried to hide his family's past

[Casandia]

5. I looked at this census, and it surprised me to see -

several people born in the UK, Canada, etc

[JoePhilly]

8. If Obama's ancestory is fair game, so is Mitt's. I say dig through it.

Then let Mitt explain it.