i'm bob abernathy. it's gooded to have you with us.vangelicals play a role that make up about 60% of the likely voters. candidates are hoping for a strong challenge from mitt romney who one about a third of evangelicals in less conservative new hampshire. rick santorum won about a quarter of evangelicals there. romney's mormon faith remains an issue. a new poll of mormons in the u.s. shows that many feel their religion is misunderstood. close to half of those surveyed say mormons face a lot of discrimination. majority say americans know little or nothing about the mormon faith, but a majority sees a growing acceptance of mormoni mormonism. more than half say the country is ready for a mormon president. another poll shows a dramatic increase in the percentage of the americans who see tensions between the rich and more. two-thirds of americans say there's a strong or very strong conflict between these groups. that's a 20% increase from 2009. although democrats and political liberals are likely to see this conflict, the number of republic

my name is bob abernathy, i'm with religion and ethics news weekly. whenever there's a disaster, there's just such an outpouring of desire to help. >> yeah. >> and over the years and especially in haiti a great many religious groups and people of faith have gone to haiti to try to help. i'm wondering since the earthquake how do you assess the effectiveness, the usefulness, the problems that need to be learned for people who go there with a strong religious motivation to try to help the least of these? >> it's a hard question meaning it's a morally hard and personally hard question to ask. but it's, i'm glad you did. i think that i don't doubt for a minute the motivations -- and even if i did, i wouldn't mention it. [laughter] so i'm not interested in that. the motivations, i assume the best, right? so it's not about that. these are people, in my experience, people of goodwill. one of the contributors to the book wrote a very grim book about this called travesty in haiti, and i invited him to participate in the book because i think we need critical, yo