While it’s clear that regional variations have played a role thus far in the Republican primaries — with Mitt Romney doing well in the Northeast but not in the South, for example — breaking down the contests along other lines might help shed some additional light on the race. It’s perhaps interesting to compare how Romney has done in each of five groupings of contests: the five states that have the largest percentage of members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Utah, Wyoming, Idaho, Nevada, and Arizona); all other swing states (Colorado, Iowa, New Hampshire, Florida, Ohio, Virginia, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Minnesota, Michigan, and New Mexico); all other GOP-leaning states; all other Democratic-leaning states; and non-states.
To date, here’s the average percentage of the popular vote than Romney has won in each of those five categories:
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