April 24 (NY, PA, CT, RI, DE) Results Thread

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Santorum is eating it in Pennsylvania even more than I expected.  He's struggling for third place in Philadelphia.

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Mittens is winning the church counties in PA.

Not surprising.  It's not like Romney has been being killed among "church-goers" in general, considering that's the vast majority of the Republican electorate.  Evangelical Christians have always been his toughest category, and they've never had any deep love for Santorum or Gingrich, especially in the North.

If Romney is becoming defaultive, which he clearly is, it's no shock he's winning demographics where he was hardly getting trounced to begin with.  This race has never been divided in the way that the 2008 Democratic Primary was, and only approaches that level of absolute polarization in parts of the Deep South.

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Mittens is winning the church counties in PA.

Not surprising.  It's not like Romney has been being killed among "church-goers" in general, considering that's the vast majority of the Republican electorate.  Evangelical Christians have always been his toughest category, and they've never had any deep love for Santorum or Gingrich, especially in the North.

It's very non-Mormon and it is Pennstucky.  These are fairly close to the southern Evangelicals.  There are probably a little more Catholics.

If Romney is becoming defaultive, which he clearly is, it's no shock he's winning demographics where he was hardly getting trounced to begin with.  This race has never been divided in the way that the 2008 Democratic Primary was, and only approaches that level of absolute polarization in parts of the Deep South.

Right, but this is not an area where Romney has ever gotten murdered in the primaries.  These may be socially conservative people, but they're hardly Louisiana Catholics.  Romney never was getting trounced among socially conservative church-goers.  If he was, he would be losing nearly everywhere.  This is the Republican primary, dude.  The average "Penntucky" voter is not dramatically far from the average Republican primary voter, and so Romney winning them once he becomes defaultive is not inordinately impressive.