Interesting interview between Wolf Blitzkrieg and Penn Jillette.

http://thatvideosite.com/video/4235

In today's religious zealot climate, no.

http://www.swivel.com/data_sets/show/1003940Gallup Poll-Would you vote for an atheist president

Dec 1959 -- 22.0%
Jul 1978 -- 40.0%
May 1983 -- 42.0%
Aug 1987 -- 44.0%
Feb 1999 -- 49.0%
Feb 2007 -- 45.0%

I like his point.

That neither Jefferson nor Washington could ever hope to be President today.


If not because of being Deists, they would have failed for being Libertarians.

They weren't atheists.

Someone who claimed he believed in "god," but didn't identify with an organized religion, would have a much easier time than a real atheist.