And Romney comes in second place, so there’ll be a primary.
Don’t know that Kennedy’s any better, but I’m sure Trump is scowling.
Yep, could be Alabama all over again - Trump endorses in the primary, the endorsee loses.
Have the Democrats recruited a reasonable enough candidate that they could beat a demoralized/split GOP there?
no
I was a delegate at the convention. I voted for Kennedy, but I expect Romney will win handily, both in the primary and the general.
IS there such a thing? Is it possible to have a Democratic statewide candidate in Utah that’s both a) acceptable to a majority of the right-wing voters of the state and b) able in the slightest to be even a nominal Democrat? I tend to think those are mutually exclusive.
I think the hope is for Romney to run as a third party, splitting the Republican vote, and thus allowing a Democratic candidate to win a plurality from the minority of Democrats, not for Republicans to get so fed up with both candidates that they cross over. Of course, either is a long shot, but then, so was Alabama.
Utah has 4 Rs in the US House. I mean it could be possible to draw a D district in SLC, but no. Solid red.
If the winner is willing to caucus with the Democrats, that increases the odds of them having the gavel, and that is very important. Even if it results in watering down progressive goals, any forward motion is better than no forward motion. It seems to me that that has always been a strength of the Democratic party, and a weakness of the GOP, especially since the ascendance of the Tea Party.
Not that it sounds like Utah is in play anyway.
Huh? I don’t think you understand how our process works here. Romney is running for the Republican nomination for Senate. The next step in the process is a primary election between Romney and Kennedy on June 26th. Romney is the heavy favorite to win that contest.
I doubt Mitt was chasing 14 year old girls at the mall when he was 30.
How would you know that? He is a Mormon. How much do you really know about that stuff? We cannot be entirely certain until he expresses support for Warren Jeffs in an effort to reap as many votes as he can.
And if nothing else, we do know that Rmoney is a reapist.
a very good history of the Mormon church is in this book. It also covers the splinter Mormon groups that still have multiple wives.
This post seems like a rather ugly slander without any evidence to support it.
Mayor of SLC is a democrat . She’s also a lesbian Catholic so I don’t think she can win statewide.
Ben McAdams, the Salt Lake COUNTY Mayor is challenging Mia Love in UT-4 this fall. If he wins there, Dems might want to look at him as a potential candidate for state-wide office. I doubt he’d ever be able to defeat Mitt Romney, or Gary Herbert, but perhaps Mike Lee.
Hurricane Ditka, Romney might be popular, but the party leadership isn’t backing him. That’s what opens up the possibility: If the leadership gets someone else in as the R candidate, then Romney might run third-party in the general, and split the vote. Which, I reiterate, I know is a long shot (and even longer, now that Romney’s gotten past the caucus), but it’s a lot less long than Utah would be in ordinary circumstances.
“Long shot” seems like a vast understatement. Here’s how the Democrat did in the last few statewide elections (not sure if this list is comprehensive, but it certainly is demonstrative).
2016 Presidential: Hillary Clinton got 27.5%
2016 Gubernatorial: Mike Weinholtz got 28.7%
2016 Senate: Misty Snow got 27.1%
2014 Attorney General: Charles Stormont got 27%
2012 Presidential: Barack Obama got 24.7%
2012 Gubernatorial: Peter Cooke got 27.7%
Yes! A fascinating, very readable book which acknowledges both the good and the bad of Mormon history, and the church (and its weird offshoots) today.
Dems were governor in Utah from 65 to 85. I guess that was before a lot of people (not just in Utah) decided Dems were spawns of Satan.
I think - I hope - it was meant as a joke. But the “reapist” line needs a better set-up for something that edgy.
I’ll be very surprised in Romney isn’t successful, although party resistance may force him to actually work for the win a little more than he expected to.