But Mr. Santorum kept the race in Ohio competitive with support from very conservative voters (who made up about 3 in 10 of all voters) and evangelical Christians (nearly half the electorate), groups Mr. Romney has struggled with in some other states.
Still, the caucuses will be an important test of Mr. Paul's organizational strength — and his ability to expand the electorate to groups like young voters and independents who are more inclined to support him.
National governments are in thrall to electorates, pressure groups and self-interest, but the European Commission answers to no one and can thus do the right thing without impediment.
Voting is rather heterogeneous across the 12 electorates or groups in RMV.
"Grass-roots organizations have always been a more powerful force than money," said Curtis Gans, director of the Committee for the Study of the American Electorate, a nonprofit group.
A new analysis by the Committee for the Study of the American Electorate, a nonpartisan group, shows that only 17.7percentt of eligible voters cast ballots in states where both the Republican and Democratic parties held presidential primaries.
Thirteen states now allow early voting, meaning residents can vote 17 to 21 days before Election Day, said Curtis B. Gans, director of the Committee for the Study of the American Electorate, a nonpartisan group in Washington.
Voter turnout in Florida was remarkably high for a midterm election: 42.9percentt, up from 36.5percentt in 1998 and 41.5percentt in 1994, according to the Committee for the Study of the American Electorate, a research group based in Washington.
In the car, Ritter explained how, when he and David Beattie, his pollster, plotted his 2006 gubernatorial race, they divided the state's electorate into five groups.
Working with us, Pew divided the electorate into twelve groups of similar size, based on criteria like race, religion, sex, and education.
