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Romney wins big in Nevada

I pray that Brother Romney will win it all. The end times are near. With this man as president, he will buy us a few more years.

Romney did really well with Mormons, and they really turned out for him. However, if not one Mormon had voted, Mitt would still have had enough votes to win. Great win!

Romney resonates well with voters the more they get to know him, his positions and vision for this country. He's the best of the bunch, in my opinion.

The current delegate count today after Nevada and South Carolina is--Romney 72, McCain 38, Huckabee 29, Thompson 8, Paul 6, and Guiliani 2.

Way to go, Mitt! On to the White House!

It's wonderful. Go, Romney!

I think it's great that Romney is getting positive coverage in the media now and not taking the hits for being a Mormon. I think it's sad that the entire mass media has decided to try to eliminate Ron Paul by not giving him the same or even a small portion of that time. You know why he had to "seriously campaign" in Nevada? It's because he had too! He does not get mentioned at all. If everyone took the time to do their own research on the candidates, (and not what the media would have you hear) many more would see that Ron Paul is the only one who has a plan to fix the mess the country is in.

It's not that I don't like "helmet head", as he refers to himself, it's that I don't know what his position will be next week.

As for the others in the GOP, they chose not to go to Nevada not because they didn't want too... It's because they DONT HAVE THE MONEY! Go to Ron Paul's website on Monday (MLK day) and be astounded at the donations that pour into Ron Paul's campaign. Oh and yes, I work graves...

So, overwhelming support from like minded mormons reflects people choosing the right man for the job. but from what i've seen here in the paper and online posts, voting for someone else because you're not a like minded mormon is mormon bashing.
Utah in a nutshell.

95 percent of LDS voters went for Romney? So much for the theory that Mormons don't vote as a bloc.

Hooray for Romney...citizens are showing what they truly believe in and that is a man who can do the job. One with experience, integrity, maturity and the abilities to be effective as the President of the United States. Mitt is a businessman who has a great love for this country. He has a proven record of organization, the ability to make good changes in our country and the desire to serve to the best of his ability. He believes in God, he is a constant practicing Christian who believes that truth will prevail. He has sound morals, loves his family and has a great desire to help turn around the economy and show that changes can be made for the good. It's not his religion that has us voting for him but his wisdom and integrity. Keep up the good work Mitt.

What we all have to do is C T R . The fact that he is
L D S just makes him more the right pick .

Very true about the SC Primary getting more press coverage, especially down south. Front page for McCain vs. back page for Romney.

Story explains Nevada's victory for Mitt. It does not explain how come he ran away from SC. He had Nevada wrapped up the moment he announced he was running for president. Polls showed it, everyone knew it. Mormons united!
But today is a new day, and he flopped in SC. He couldn't even beat Fred! Has anyone actually seen Fred talk? Move? Show life? And Mitt spent a ton of money and time in SC, only to run away.
The GOP knows it. FL will show it. McCain is hot now and looks like a car set to go down hill to the finish line. Romney cannot carry the big states, and McCain can.
So does Mitt get the VP slot? No. You can't get elected pres. of the good old USA and have your ticket from AZ and ... UT? Or is he from Michigan? Or is it Massachusettes? Confused? So is the voting public.
No, running away from SC was awful. He didn't even get the chance to explain why he came in 4th. Didn't get the chance to dance.

If I were in his shoes, I'd fire the idiot who made me run away from the south.

Can Latter-Day Saints truly be troubled with the "Mormon" label associated with Mitt Romney? The national articles attribute his victory in Nevada to stances on the economy and immigration. The Deseret New? His church membership.

Mormons comprise 7.5% of Nevada's populous. 27% of those casting votes in Nevada said they were Mormons.

By these numbers you can deduce: one few Nevadians voted increasing the percentage of Mormons and the 27% of Mormons who voted were involved in voting for a candidate based on his faith.

What drove one group of voters out? Was their voting a influenced by a larger organization's influence with a political agenda?

Wasn't it Mormons who were whining about religious tests in voting? Is hypocrisy a Christian value?

Mark my words..the media will bury Ron Paul's #2 finish behind Mitt. Paul continues to beat Guiliani..remember..the one that the media told us we needed to crown as he was the only one who could beat Hilary (it takes a village). Yet, now McCain...the liberal republican is the media man...the lib. favorite Republican. In any event, Ron Paul..the obscure candidate continues to raise a small fortune, way ahead of several candidates, and will continue to get dissed by the mainstream press....because they don't want him. He is too much of a Constitutionalist and Republican as the current gravy trains would be dried up. That's the truth on this one folks.

Isn't a tragic day in America when a candidate for president can win a state for no reason other than his religion?
Is this the land of religious freedom or of religious bias and bigotry?
When will Americans, even Mormoms, THINK?

Congratulations to Mitt Romney. He is by far the best Republican candidate and it's just really a shame on so many in the Republican primary that they just can't seem to see that.
The religion issue is clearly the reason that he hasn't gained more traction and I see this as a wake up call to the LDS Church that despite all the repackaging efforts of the last 40 years most people still see Mormons as some kind of 19th century Amish types who have lots of wives and eshew modern society. Nothing could be further from the truth of course, but perception is reality for many people. And there are some things that could be done to mitigate these bad perceptions. Polygamy gets alot of ink in the media (Warren Jeffs, etc.), is there perhaps something concrete that could be done by the LDS Church to help alleviate people's concerns, some changes in our doctrine, scriptures etc. that, though minor in the eternal scheme of things, could help people get over the polygamy thing--that is where most non LDS folks have their problem, I know, I have lots of non LDS relatives who share this view.

Ron Paul a perennial also-ran? just what does that make out of Giuliani?

I think Romney did great, but lets not foget about underdog Ron Paul and his astounding and largly ignored second place finish.

I saw on the Article VI blog that when they do a chart of what religions won't vote for another, Evangelicals won't vote for a Mormon, but Mormons do NOT vote in a block. I think it is pretty sad then, that the News makes it look like ONLY because of Mormons did Mitt win in Nevada. The exit polls showed too that if not ONE Mormon had voted, Mitt STILL WOULD HAVE WON!!!

Mitt is the man who HAS had a plan since he put up his site months ago! He has not switched it, and he has the honesty and intelligence plus the experience in the business world to run the country. You don't have to have used a gun to shoot at an enemy, or be held a hostage, to see how to win a war!

I wonder if Thompson would make a good vice pres? GO MITT!!

Great! Go Romney! He's someone you are comfortable voting for.

His being the most qualified person for the presidencty aside, Nevada's evangelicals showed that those who live, work, and play with the Mormon community aren't threatened by the mass lies about Mormonism perpetuated and believed in the southeast by evangelicals. Mitt won the evangelical votes in Nevada over Cookaboo (and he's a evangelical preacher!). Again, those in the Bible belt who don't have the luxury of having many Mormon friends could look and learn from what happened in Nevada. Don't worry about religion and look at who can win over the Demo's and who can turn Washington around like he's done with everything else. It's a "Mitt" not a "Mormon" thing!