For every “identity” evangelical voter, you can times that by 2.67 or 3 as a multiplier re: Romney & his Mormon voter support.
Salt Lake City Tribune reporting: With nearly a quarter of the precincts reporting, Romney dominated with 88 percent of the [Utah] vote!
Can you believe that? (Pick out the most Evangelical state…and if 88% of that state voted for Huckabee, the MSM & Mittbots would freak out!)
Romney's "identity" politics is in some ways carrying him much further than Huck.
This is occurring on many different levels.
It’s happening at the vote level: Deseret News says Romney was getting “well over 80%”—Trib reporting 88% with ¼ of precincts reporting…Whereas, in Iowa Huckabee even tho he won he still only got 34% of the vote in a 60% Evangelical turnout. Almost 1 in 5 Evangelical Iowans voted for Romney...Can you imagine Romney only getting 34% in Utah? The 8-10% of Nevada LDS voters, who made up a quarter of the Nevada GOP, went 94% for Romney. (The LDS voters helped him to carry Wyoming). [Jeff Chandler]
It’s happening at the financial level: According to the Deseret News, 79% of the candidate $ raised in Utah is going Romney (which I figured was about 91% of the GOP candidate $ from Utah going to Romney). See: Deseret News article, Utahns Mitt’s Biggest Fan$ at http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1963804/posts
“Romney’s “identity” politics is in some ways carrying him much further than Huck. “
Southern identity is as much about hating Yankees as it is about eating grits. The Southern vote went far today.
Wow, months after months of bashing Romney and LDS and cr*pping all over the Mormons. Gosh, you must feel all warm and fuzzy that Romney only won 7 states and McCain won 9 and beat him in Cali.
It’s bigots like you who gave us the clusterhuck.
Well done (NOT).