Are you willing to bet that the percentage of mormons who voted for Romney in the primary will vote for McCain/Palin? What was it...90% or so?
Mormons tend not to gamble, but yes, Utah will go to McCain / Palin by a huge margin, that is a bet I am certainly willing to make.
I think Bush got 83% in Utah so I'd guess that it won't be quite 90%.
But I'm willing to bet that Palin gets a higher margins among Mormons than Evangelicals this vote.
Here's why. The highest margins any Republican candidate ever gets are from Utah period.
It's beating a dead horse... but... this Primary some evangelicals didn't come out looking too great. For example going for McCain, Huckabee and Guiliani in many states over Fred, Duncan and Mitt. Sure if they don't trust Mitt based on policy or religion that is one thing. But I think Evangelicals have a lot answer for, for not going for Duncan or Fred in the South. The South was trending liberal this go around. While in the west Duncan (also an Evangelical) had a nice showing in Wyoming, 2nd and Nevada 3rd.
Western mormons are willing to vote for the conservative candidate regardless of religious affiliation. Some evangelicals in the South were trending liberal this go around. As a disclaimer, I know conservative evangelical FReepers will do the right thing but there has been a trend among some Evangelicals in the south into liberalism, populism, global warmingism etc.