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Mitt Romney surged to a strong lead in early returns out of the Nevada Republican presidential caucuses Saturday, as he shoots for the first back-to-back win in the 2012 race.With 10 percent of precincts reporting, Romney leads with 39 percent. Newt Gingrich has 25 percent, followed by Ron Paul with 22 percent and Rick Santorum with 13 percent.Nevada is friendly territory for Romney, having overwhelmingly supported him in 2008.Entrance polls Saturday evening showed Romney crushing the competition among those who value beating President Obama in November as the most important quality in a GOP candidate.The polls also showed Romney leading the field by double digits among evangelical Christian caucus-goers. Romney was backed by 48 percent of evangelicals, compared with 27 percent for Gingrich.Despite early reports of low turnout in Nevada, state GOP Chairwoman Amy Tarkanian said she thinks turnout will exceed the roughly 44,000 who came out in 2008.Nevada offers a modest delegate haul, w...
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Republicans Rick Santorum and Ron Paul looked beyond Saturday's presidential caucuses in Nevada, eyeing contests further down the nominating calendar and signaling t...
Rick Santorum finishes a distant fourth
A confident Mitt Romney is looking past his GOP opponents and Nevada's caucuses the day the state votes. Chief rival Newt Gingrich is bracing for defeat in a state t...
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