MSNBC has called Louisiana for Mike Huckabee. Sure, Huck got fewer than three in ten non-evangelical voters. But among Pelican State evangelicals, who make up 58-percent of Republican voters there, Huckabee got nearly six in ten votes. With Mitt Romney out of the race, a religious rift has opened in the GOP. One more sign that the era of George W. Bush, who bridged that rift so effectively, has ended.

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