You’re right!
I forgot how Nevada was highly supportive of Romney, but one he was gone it swung heavly to Obama. Even Utah voted in greater proportions for Obama than they had voted for any democrat in recent memory.
Kind of like, “I’m taking my ball and going home.” Support Romney or else!
Sure if you define it by state. But the real story is told when you break down the vote by religion. Catholics and Evangelicals voted for Obama in higher rates than Mormons and Non evangelical Protestants.
As for the State vote its simply b/c there are more liberal non mormons there than there used to be. SLC is over 50% non Mormon now (ironically given prop. 8 brouhaha, it has a high gay population). When voting rates are broken down by state it appears Utah was second only to Oklahoma by 1% in voting for Palin (Evangelical). However Baldwin (Evangelical) was not on the ticket in OK while he was in Utah.