Despite reports of Republican devastation in the contraception debate, social conservative themes show surprising signs of hanging around.

Rick Santorum’s upset wins in Alabama and Mississippi—in most pre-primary polls he was running third—are part of the story. So are CNN exit polls that suggest no-exceptions pro-life voters accounted for considerably more than his margins of victory.

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