If affection can be measured by gifts, Utahns love Mitt Romney 13 times more than does the typical American.

New financial disclosure forms show Utahns gave a whopping $5.2 million total to Romney's presidential campaign through the end of 2007, including $619,471 in the last quarter.

That averages to $1.97 for Romney from every man, woman and child in Utah.

No other place comes close to that. In a distant second was Washington, D.C., at 77 cents per resident for Romney.

Ironically, Romney has been bad-mouthing Washington, saying the nation needs to replace politicians entrenched there. Most of the D.C. money likely came from lobbyists and special interests that use Washington as their home address.

Nationally, Romney raised an average of 15 cents per person from all Americans in donations. That is one-thirteenth of what he raised from Utahns.

Kirk Jowers, head of the University of Utah's Hinckley Institute of Politics, said about Romney's fund raising in Utah, "The $5.2 million is a jaw-dropping number ... Mitt's support here is so broad and so deep, very impressive."

He said Romney's Utah performance may bring future financial boosts to the local Republican Party and its candidates.

"So many (Utahns) gave such significant amounts" to Romney, "and once someone has given to a political candidate or cause, they are very likely to give again," studies show, Jowers said.

"His Utah donors list will be a very popular list" for Utah Republicans, Jowers said. "Mitt will have released a wave of engaged Utah citizenry."

Romney raised more money here that he did in Massachusetts, where he was governor just two years ago. Massachusetts was third on the list and gave him 62 cents per person. Michigan, where Romney was born, was No. 11 on the list, with just under 21 cents per person. Utah is his third home, where he oversaw the 2002 Olympics.

Utahns gave Romney so much money that it was actually more than some failed presidential candidates managed to raise during in their entire campaigns this cycle.

The $5.2 million Utahns gave Romney was more than the $4.2 million total raised nationally by Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan.; the $3.9 million raised by Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio; and the $2.5 million raised by Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., for example.

It was nearly six times more than former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee has raised in Arkansas ($885,326).

It was nearly twice as much as Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., raised in his home state of Arizona ($2.75 million).