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

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Oh, and Mormons are Protestant Christians, just to let you know. Odd ones yes, but still Protestants.

I don't have a dog in the hunt, but that is a very contentious point of view. Mormons may believe they are in the Protestant tradition, but lots of Protestant sects don't even accept they are Christian.

Some Protestant sects don't consider Catholics Christian.

Almost all Protestant theologians recognise Catholics and Orthodox as fellow Christians and they return the favour, none of these recognise the Mormons as Christians, and being Christian are necessary to be Protestant. Of course laymen do see Mormons as a Christian sect, and outside the theology, Mormons are descendent of the Christian and Protestant traditions.

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And which 'tradition' do they descend from?

The Anglo-Saxon mess of semi-Low Church sects (all those different Protestant groups which spread in 17th and early 18th century on the British Isles like Baptist, Methodist, Quaker etc).

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Baptists are anabaptists and come from a very different origin than Methodists.

Yes and I would have called them 2nd Reformation sects, but that mean something different to English speakers, than to us other Protestants, so semi-Low Church is Close enough for government work.