The US Republican primaries just passed the halfway point. What's going on with evangelicals? In a race where Mitt Romney is leading (winning 14 states), they seem sweet on Rick Santorum (nine states). Are they again a "religious values" voting-bloc outlier?
A closer look suggests they're not a bloc at all. They supported Romney in New Hampshire, Maine, Virginia, and Nevada, as majorities in those states did. They tied Romney with Newt Gingrich in Florida, and with Santorum in Arizona. They supported Santorum in a February flurry, preferred Gingrich in the southern states of South Carolina and Georgia and nearly split three-ways in southern Mississippi and Alabama, as majorities did.
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