From Deseret News archives:
Big day's here; Utah still looks irrelevant
Although many have found that you simply can't beat, "I'M NOT GEORGE BUSH," when looking for cheap applause on the stump except here in the dark burgundy of red states where candidates not channeling GWB do so at great political peril. Despite the ongoing Iraq war and a swooning national economy, here in the bushiest of Bush Country, the president's popularity meter remarkably remains between Jell-O and thin Marie.
Which is why if you peer at Utah from outer space through the Hubble Telescope, you MIGHT be able to make out a very faint impression of national political relevance and influence or is that the outline of Mitt Romney?
Romney, a three-time silver medalist in the 2008 GOP primaries thus far, didn't need to campaign in Utah which he's deemed his own personal campaign piggy bank. All Zeus, as he likes to be called, has to say is, "Winter Olympics" and he automatically gets 75 percent support of Utahns most likely to vote. Anything to do with his hair is good for another 10 percent bump.
Other candidates, meanwhile, seem unable or unwilling to believe that 2.7 million devils with horns Mike Huckabee excluded can actually be so deluded and have dispatched proxies to the Brine Shrimp State in the hopes of harvesting delegates on the shores of the Great Salt Lake.
Hillary Clinton made one final try last night at wooing Utah's electorate with a Hallmark Channel moment an intimate nationally televised town hall event for them and, oh say, about 100 million voters in 21 other Democratic Doomsday states.
Last week former First Child Chelsea Clinton also visited the state, but her appearance at the U. was reportedly as stimulating as the beater brush in a 7-year-old vacuum.
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