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

[minionofmidas]

Or maybe the country's moved on?

Evidently, to a remarkable degree. The question is, how much of the country.

[minionofmidas]

A lot of "firsts" can be overstated. Is this the first ticket with two surnames containing the letter "y" ?

Possibly. Not going to check through the defeated ones. Certainly not if we add given names, though, there've been about half a dozen successful ones alone in that case.

[minionofmidas]

The part of the country that hasn't moved on has probably moved on even less from the whole "hating black people and/or secret muslins" thing.

You wonder whether this was on some GOP insiders' mind. (Probably not, though. The Protestant-Catholic divide has become quite unimportant.) Back in '28, the first neither-British-nor-Dutch GOP candidate (not in the male line anyhow) had a part-Native running mate... and was up against the first ever Catholic nominee.

[minionofmidas]

Neither party has a Protestant in the ticket.

Barack Obama is a Protestant.

[minionofmidas]

Where is the evangelical Protestant? I don't see one. Neither party has a Protestant in the ticket.

You don't consider President Obama a Protestant?    

I made that joke already. It's pretty clear he meant a White Conservative Protestant.

[minionofmidas]

Last I checked Mormons were Protestants.

Dude, the usual issue to debate is whether they're Christians. Theologically, that's a less-than-exactly-orthodox proposition.
Of course, they're culturally Protestant allright.

[minionofmidas]

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

What about Morwomen?

The correct term is Mormaid.