(WASHINGTON TIMES) CHICAGO — Mitt Romney’s lopsided victory in Illinois this week showed again that he’s hard to beat in states with more moderate, less evangelical-minded voters — a good sign for the former Massachusetts governor when that describes most of the big prizes left on the Republican primary schedule.
In the weeks ahead, most of the delegate-rich states left on the map more closely resemble the electorates in Ohio and Florida, where Mr. Romney won, than the voters in Georgia and Mississippi, where evangelicals shied away from the former governor.
In the 16 states where exit polls have been conducted, Mr. Romney won caucuses or primaries in the 10 states where evangelical or born-again Christians made up less than half of the voters.
