Easy victory for Romney as contest heads to Missouri

Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney cruised to an easy victory in Nevada on Saturday, crushing his three remaining rivals and taking firm command of the party’s volatile presidential nominating race.

With support from a broad cross-section of Republicans, Romney won by a big double-digit margin over former House of Representatives speaker Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul and Rick Santorum.

The victory was Romney’s second in a row and his third in the first five contests in the state-by-state battle to find a challenger to President Barack Obama in November’s election.