Romney in Utah was the biggest lead-pipe-cinch in American Political history.
Yup. Identity politics to the max. Folks voting for a candidate where they take religion into primary consideration.
(What was interesting was to read the readers' sour grapes' comments from the Mormon church-owned newspaper, the Deseret News in Utah the day or two after Huckabee beat Romney in Iowa. There in Iowa, almost 1 in 5 Evangelicals voted for Romney...a trend that has been surpassed even in other states since then...I'd like to see Utah voters vote for any single candidate other than Romney by a 1 in 5 or more rate!...And even in Iowa, which was made up of 60% Evangelicals, he still only got 34% of the vote. LDS make up about the same % of Utah--and a much higher % of the GOP slice--I'd like to see if Romney would get only 34% of the Utah vote...and yet there were all kinds of Mormon reader comments claiming Evangelical voter bias in Iowa when it looks like the percentages will be even much more extreme in Utah...double standards to the hilt!)