Romney Battlegrounds

The following chart shows states where Mitt Romney will likely do well, as they have high Mormon populations. In addition, California has over 500,000 Mormons (which, on a typical voting base of 3 million in the primaries, could be significant). The real question, of course, is whether conservatives in the South will coalesce around Romney rather than Huckabee, who is running solely as a Christian.

State	Number of congregations	Number of members	Percent of state population
Utah	2,924	1,236,242	71.76%
Idaho	662	268,060	26.63
Wyoming	128	45,793	10.10
Nevada	198	89,033	7.41
Arizona	469	199,761	5.45
Montana	106	28,620	3.58
Hawaii	109	38,303	3.46
Oregon	228	89,601	3.15
Washington	371	150,634	3.10
Alaska	58	15,751	2.86