It's Utah's turn: Local voters favor Mitt and Obama, poll shows

Also, Romney has raised more than $5 million from Utahns over the past year, the latest Federal Election Commission reports show — far outpacing the fundraising here of any other presidential candidate, Republican or Democratic.

But Utah Democrats don't think Romney has such a good chance of being our next president. Perhaps reading the national polls, only 27 percent of Democrats think Romney will ultimately win, while 56 percent of Democrats think that if there is a GOP president, it will be McCain.

Both Utah Democrats and Republicans think that if a Democrat wins the White House, it will be Obama, not Clinton. Half of the Democrats think Obama would be the Democratic winner, while 57 percent of Utah Republicans think that it will be the Illinois senator, if it is any Democrat.

Asked who, in either party, will ultimately become president a year from now, Utah Republicans are unsure. Thirty-six percent said they don't know or have a guess; 31 percent said it will be Romney; McCain limps in at only 9 percent.

Utah Democrats are more sure. Thirty-six percent said Obama will take the oath of office, 24 percent didn't know, and 22 percent said it will be Clinton.

In short, Clinton and McCain don't do very well in the survey, which has a margin of error of plus or minus 6.5 percent in both the Republican and Democratic columns.

McCain likely suffers only because Romney is so popular in this Republican-, LDS-dominated state.

The displeasure with Clinton may go deeper. Former President Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton's husband, never did very well here, actually finishing third in 1992 behind independent Ross Perot and then-GOP President George H.W. Bush. In 1996, Utahns overwhelmingly objected when Bill Clinton designated a big chunk of south-central Utah as a new national monument without a vote of Congress.

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