Utahns give $1.2 million more to Mitt

Other presidential candidates also have come to Utah to ask for money in the past three months, including a trio of Democrats, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson and Connecticut Sen. Christopher Dodd.

Romney is spending his campaign cash to raise his national profile. Thanks to big television commercial buys in the early voting states of Iowa and New Hampshire, he is leading in polls in those states.

But Romney continues to trail in the national polls, often behind not just Giuliani but also the other top-tier GOP candidates, Arizona Sen. John McCain and former Tennessee senator and actor Fred Thompson.

Zwick told Utahns participating in last month's rally that they needed to raise money to pay for more advertising. That's particularly true in Southern states such as South Carolina, where Romney has run into questions from evangelical Christians about his LDS faith.

Gitcho pointed out that three Southern states made the campaign's top 10 list of contributors — Florida, Texas and Virginia.

"The governor's message of conservative change in Washington," she said, "is resounding in more states."

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