Mr McBride, like several directors at Caldera, has worked for Novell and is a devout Mormon.
But Jon Huntsman, another moderate, might hurt Mr Romney a bit.Although the evangelical bastion of South Carolina will be the third state to vote, on January 21st, a string of less conservative spots follows, including Florida, Nevada (where many voters share Mr Romney's Mormon faith) and Michigan (where Mr Romney was born and his father was governor).
About how the United States turned swathes of the desert radioactive during the cold war and denied it, bequeathing a medical mystery which to this day haunts Hollywood and rural Mormon communities and raises a thorny question: how much should you trust the government?
He's a Mormon but does not make a big deal of his religious beliefs.
The Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), an agency with near Olympian powers which ran the nuclear programme, selected a government-owned bombing and gunnery range in Nevada partly because winds would blow "radiological hazards" away from Las Vegas and Los Angeles towards "virtually uninhabitable" land downwind to the west, home to ranches and Mormon communities.
Writing in his journal about the strange celestial events of 13 November 1833, Prophet Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormon Church, described how he was awakened at 4am by a fellow clergyman "calling me to arise and behold the signs in the heavens".
Formerly a Mormon high priest, Park told the BBC: "There's compelling evidence that the Mormon Church leaders knowingly and wilfully misrepresent the historical truth of their origins and of the church for the purpose of deceiving their members into a state of mind that renders them exploitable".
The West End is eagerly awaiting South Park musical The Book of Mormon to transfer from Broadway, where it has been a runaway critical and commercial hit.
Exit polls showed eight out of 10 voters regarded as important that the candidate was a co-religionist, meaning Romney, as a Mormon, had no real chance.
Mitt Romney's second cousin, Park Romney, has publicly denounced the Mormon religion as a "fraud".
At the peak of this virtual mountain is a Mormon couple from Washington, DC, Naomi and Josh Davis, who set up their blog Rockstar Diaries shortly after wedding in 2007.
