Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Religion in the Super Tuesday Primaries

Report from Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life on recent primaries

Religion in the Super Tuesday Primaries

Romney continues to struggle among evangelicals, Santorum yet to win among Catholics

Mitt Romney won six of the 10 GOP caucuses and primaries held on Super Tuesday, while Rick Santorum won three states and Newt Gingrich was victorious in one. Romney continues to struggle among the GOP’s white born-again/evangelical voters. He did win the evangelical vote in two of the seven states where exit polling was conducted – Massachusetts (where he served as governor) and Virginia (where neither Santorum nor Gingrich were on the ballot).1 In four states, Romney received significantly less support from evangelicals than from non-evangelical voters. This continues the pattern seen in previous caucuses and primaries; before Super Tuesday, Romney had received less support from evangelicals than from non-evangelicals in every contest for which data are available.

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