Traditional media: Mitt Romney wins Nevada Republican caucuses

While voting continues in the Republican primary in South Carolina, news outlets are projecting that Mitt Romney has won the Nevada caucuses in a landslide:

Based on entrance poll results, ABC News projects that former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney will win the Nevada Republican Caucuses.

Romney, coming off a major victory this week in Michigan, was the perceived frontrunner entering the Nevada race, which has been overshadowed as most of the candidates focused during the past few days on the South Carolina Republican primary.

Romney won broad support among Nevada's Republican voters, according to preliminary entrance poll result analysis by ABC News. Notably, while Mormons only make up 7 percent of the state's population, the accounted for roughly a quarter of Republican caucus-goers. Ninety percent of them supported Romney, who is Mormon.

Romney can now boast of having three states in his win column (Wyoming, Michigan, and Nevada) which is more than any other candidate. But South Carolina is also voting today, and it remains to be seen who will win there. Most of Mitt Romney's rivals did not campaign in Nevada, and so his victory there isn't much of a surprise. But South Carolina remains an important prize.