Credit where it’s due: If all of the Mormons who voted for Mitt Romney stayed home today, he still would have won by a large margin.
My math: GOP turnout is put at about 43,000. Exit polls put Mormons at 25 percent of the GOP electorate, or about 10,750 voters. Ninety-four percent of those voted for Romney, or about 10,105.
Romney’s vote total with 99 percent of the precincts reporting is 22,629.
22,629 – 10,105 = 12,524. By comparison, second-place finisher Ron Paul is at 6,077.
Still a 2 to 1 margin over his closest competitor.
UPDATE: From Bruce, a Nevada-based Campaign Spot reader: “I attended the NV caucuses today. I must say, I’m a Fred-head, but for those that say Mitt won “a one-horse race”, I may have gotten mailbox full of Romney mailers, but the only Republican on TV or Radio out here was Ron Paul.”






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