I read this from Peggy's updates today and was shocked:

   "According to Mormon eschatology, at a time when the US constitution hangs by a thread, a Mormon leader will emerge on a white horse to save the land and restore peace."

    Is it  a coincidence that one of the leading presidential candidates is a Mormon? I am sure that all the Mormon's are well aware that Mitt Romney is a devout Mormon and may well be the one they think will fufill this prophecy. Sen Orrin Hatch, also a faithful Mormon, was considered by some to be the one to fulfill that prophecy in 1999, when he announced his candidacy for president, but it was not so. I found this on the web:

    Though his family hails from Michigan and he is governor of Massachusetts, the lion's share of contributions to likely Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney come from Utah. This is hardly surprising. More than 70% of Utah's residents are, like Mr. Romney, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS). As fellow Mormons, they feel a special kinship with him. Some even see in him the potential to fulfill a 160-year-old premonition by Mormon founder Joseph Smith, known as the "White Horse Prophecy."

    In 1843, according to followers of Smith, he predicted that one day American citizens would be denied their most basic rights and the U.S. Constitution would "hang like a thread as fine as a silk fiber." "A terrible revolution will take place in the land of America, such as has never been seen before; for the land will be left without a Supreme Government, and every specie of wickedness will be practiced rampantly in the land," Smith reportedly said.

    It would then be up to the Mormon people, symbolized by a white horse, to ride in and save the republic from collapsing. "I love the Constitution; it was made by the inspiration of God, and it will be preserved and saved by the efforts of the White Horse," Smith purportedly told his followers, borrowing the white horse image from the apostle John in the Book of Revelation.