Romney/Ryan is first major party ticket with no Protestant on it.

[Stranger in a strange land]

I think we should all admit that white Catholics are the most powerful swing voters in this country.  The republicans know that the southern evangelicals will always vote for them. 

Now in order to win the swing states, the GOP needs to appeal to the "Reagan Democrats" which are essentially white Catholics (who voted for Kennedy, FDR, etc.). 

The southern evangelicals may stay home, but then they concede to the half-black Obama and the Liberal Democrats. 

Catholic Paul Ryan ensures Romney victories in Iowa, Ohio, Florida, and Wisconsin. 

Reagan Democrats did exist, but by and large, they weren't the people the media describes as Reagan Democrats. For the most part, they were conservative, traditionally Democratic white and rural Southerners, they type who had voted Wallace in '68, Nixon in '72, Carter in '76, and Reagan in '80 and '84, and who have been reliably Republican since. Reagan didn't win over working-class White Catholics in the North anywhere near as much as the popular mythology holds: just look at the county results from 1984 if you don't believe me.

[Stranger in a strange land]

Mormans are their own thing. They are not Catholic, Protestant, Evangelical or Pentacostal.

That's not how it goes. It goes Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant. All forms of Christianity fall under one of the three.

Says who? Mormons may be Christian, but it's hard to call them Protestant, and they certainly aren't Catholic or Orthodox!

Also, you have Churches like these:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_East
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christadelphians
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restoration_Movement
Which doctrinally, are clearly outside the Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant traditions, but which nonetheless consider themselves Christian.