Hacked emails show how pro-Clinton super PAC would have attacked Romney by using Mormon links

Washington • A pro-Hillary Clinton super PAC compiled a thick book of opposition research on Republican candidate Mitt Romney, including several sections noting his Mormon mission, his ties to the Marriott family and protests during his college days against the white only teams at Brigham Young University.

The research, which is commonly gathered in political races, dated from 2007 and 2008 and was released as part of the hacked emails of John Podesta, who is Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign manager, which are now on WikiLeaks.

The super PAC noted that Romney's much-anticipated speech about his Mormon faith "didn't change the mind of voters," citing a Salt Lake Tribune story about a Gallup poll showing only 17 percent of Americans still were less inclined to vote for a Mormon even after Romney's address.

The research book also notes that during his Mormon mission to France, Romney was the driver of a car involved a crash where the wife of his mission president was killed. Romney's return to the United States after his mission is covered in the research as well, noting an International Herald Tribune story about how he "hung back from the ferment of the day" in the civil rights movement era and stayed on the sidelines during protests of BYU's all-white athletic teams.

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