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Wednesday’s Religion News Roundup: Romney wins, Shariah ban loses, a rooftop “sexperiment”

By: Tracy Simmons

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January 11, 2012

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Is it all over now but the counting?

As you probably already know,Mitt Romney crushed it in New Hampshire yesterday, becoming the first non-incumbent to win Iowa and the Granite State since our modern primary process began in 1976.

Ron Paul finished second with about 23 percent of the vote. The NYT says South Carolina will provide a bigger test for Romney because of its many conservative evangelicals and Tea Partiers.

“For most Christians, Mormonism is an issue and he has a hurdle here that he's going to have to jump over and navigate around if he can,”

Franklin Grahamtold the Old Grey Lady. Romney actually won a plurality of evangelicals (30 percent) in N.H. Santorum came in second with 23 percent of the evangelical vote, but won just 8 percent of Catholics, in one of the more interesting entrance/exit poll findings.

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Tracy Simmons

Tracy Simmons is an award-winning journalist specializing in religion reporting and digital entrepreneurship. In her approximate 20 years on the religion beat, Simmons has tucked a notepad in her pocket and found some of her favorite stories aboard cargo ships in New Jersey, on a police chase in Albuquerque, in dusty Texas church bell towers, on the streets of New York and in tent cities in Haiti. Simmons has worked as a multimedia journalist for newspapers across New Mexico, Texas, Connecticut and Washington. She is the executive director of FāVS.News, a digital journalism start-up covering religion news and commentary in Spokane, Washington. She also writes for The Spokesman-Review and national publications. She is a Scholarly Associate Professor of Journalism at Washington State University.

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