The same percentage of Mormons will vote for Romney as Blacks will vote for Obama - just under 100%.
From the article: Undoubtedly, much of the support Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum received in the Southern states was suspicion by evangelical voters toward Romney's LDS belief. "We are voting for a true conservative" was a clever cloak for this bigotry.
They are now trying to marginalize Southern Christians -- for fear that they will be the primary "holdout" in boarding the Romney bandwagon.
By calling non-Romney supporters "bigots," they are trying the liberal tactic that if you don't vote Mormon, you're a "bigot."
The same percentage of Mormons will vote for Romney as Blacks will vote for Obama - just under 100%. [Cincinatus' Wife]
CW makes an interesting parallel...The % of Southern Christian/Evangelical voters who supported either Santorum or Gingrich in the primaries has been significantly less than the % of Mormons who have supported Romney in 2008 and 2012:
And, rather interesting that 94-95% of Mormons in both Utah and Nevada voted for Romney in 2008:
* 2008 (Utah) "While the former Massachusetts governor’s faith has been a flashpoint in his campaign, it was perhaps one of his strongest assets in Utah, where more than 60% of the state’s residents share his faith. Exit poll data shows Romney swept voters across the board, handily winning every social, economic, and generational demographic in the state, as well as 94% of all Mormon voters." (Susan Davis, Wall Street Journal, Feb. 5, 2008, Romney Wins Utah With Help From Friends [Note: The Wall Street Journal was citing MSNBC.msn.com...]
* 2008 (Nevada) Per the Mormon Church, Mormons make up about 7.5% of Nevada's population. But according to the entrance polls so far, a whopping 25% of those who participated in the state's GOP caucuses are Mormons. And 94% of those people went with Romney.
Source: Nevada Mormons turn out for Romney (Mark Murray, MSNBC, Jan. 19, 2008)
* 2008 (Arizona and Nevada): In the Nevada Republican caucuses last cycle, entrance polls found that a quarter — 26 percent — of participants were Mormons and 95 percent supported Romney. He won the state handily. The numbers were also impressive in Arizona, where exit polls showed 11 percent of voters were Mormon and 88 percent of them voted for Romney...
Source: Mitt Romney’s Mormon firewall
* 2012 (Nevada): According to exit polls conducted for the Associated Press, nine of 10 Mormon voters in Nevada supported Romney.
Source: Paul seeks to attract Mormon voters in Nevada GOP contest
So...why have about 95% of Mormons -- about 85% of whom are Republicans & are supposedly "conservative" -- supporting a liberal pro-abortion socialized healthcare candidate?
Well, the exit polls answer that as well:
Per this 2008 exit poll data:
Exit poll data from Tuesday's primary elections showed Utah Republican voters cared more about presidential candidates' PERSONAL QUALITIES THAN THEIR POSITIONS ON THE ISSUES, the OPPOSITE OF THE NATIONAL TREND of the national trend in Super Tuesday voting.
Source: Romney's exit disappoints strong Utah following (Feb. 7, 2008 AP/Salt Lake Tribune)
IOW, Mormon voters vote Romney because he's Mormon! That's it!
(And isn't voting for a candidate only -- or primarily -- because of his religious ID = a form of "bigotry?" Isn't voting against non-Mormons because they aren't Mormon -- isn't that "bigotry?")