Mormons could shape Nevada caucuses, even absent Romney

LAS VEGAS — Nevada’s influential Mormons weren’t taken for granted in the campaign for the state’s Republican presidential caucuses Tuesday. Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints only account for 4 percent to 5 percent of the population in Nevada, where the first white settlers were Mormon and the faith’s bastion sits across the state line in Utah. But they are apt to turn out and made up about a quarter of the electorate in the 2012 GOP caucuse