Romney's "big win" in Nevada was almost entirely due to Mormon numbers at caucuses

[highplainsdem]

Mormons, who make up about 7% of the population in Nevada, turned out for this year's GOP caucuses, like those in 2008, in greatly disproportionate numbers -- more than a quarter of the participants.

And more than 90% of them voted for Romney, according to polling done by the media. And some news stories said the Mormons who didn't vote for Romney favored Ron Paul, not Gingrich.

So Romney's margin of victory over Gingrich consisted of the Mormon vote.

I heard someone try to spin it on one of the morning news shows, saying Romney would still have a sizable margin of victory without the disproportionate Mormon vote, but that simply isn't the case.

[msongs]

1. a mormon prez would be a HUGE PR move for LDS, big $$ will be spent to accomplish this nt

[customerserviceguy]

2. That's something he'll have going for him in Arizona, as well

Lots of Mormons there, too. I'm sure he would have won there four years ago if he hadn't been up against favorite son John McCain.

Also, in the western states, people get familiar with the LDS faith, almost everybody knows a Mormon. They're usually seen as hard-working, family-oriented types who only try to shove their religion in your face once, if you don't bite, they move on. That helps Romney in the west, too.

[UTUSN]

3. R#5 & K for, yip, last time he ran the local LDS males were smitten with themselves

And I'm talking middle aged dudes. I was out by the street curb doing the weeding when Mittens was in the Mc5planes primaries, and from the corner, 3 city lots away, came these four dudes in white, long-sleeved shirts and ties, dress slacks, toward me. They all looked like the underwear models in the newspaper ads, and all smiling full of themselves. They looked like Stepford cookie cutter people. They were carrying their (Bibles?). They beamed, "Can we talk to you a bit?" I said I was busy, not glowering at them, but giving them some kind of look of deflating their self-loving "charm."