From Deseret News archives:
Campaign hits Utah, finally
And that's a first, maybe since the dawn of television.
"I've been doing this for 23 years, and I've never seen a dime of presidential money coming into Utah" for campaign advertising, said Mark Wiest, vice president for sales at KSL-TV. Political experts say they can't remember any presidential candidates, Democratic or Republican, ever buying TV time here.
According to a new Deseret Morning New/KSL-TV poll, more than three-quarters of Democrats surveyed said they had seen an ad for either Clinton or Obama in the past week, leading up to Super Tuesday. Money well spent, then but apparently not as efficient as the Romney campaign's strategy on ad buys in Utah.
More than a third of Republican Utah voters polled, and 43 percent of Democrats, said they had seen a TV ad for Mitt Romney in the past week although in fact there are no Romney ads running, at least locally. That's a big bang for his no bucks. John McCain also hasn't purchased any TV time, but more than a quarter of Democrats and Republicans say they've seen one of his ads in the past week.
With only five electoral votes, no presidential primary prior to 2000, and the state's election preferences pretty obvious and overwhelmingly uniform, Utah hasn't been important to candidates in past years. But this year Utah is part of the Super Tuesday primaries and caucuses, and the Democratic vote here is still seen as "up in the air," said Kirk Jowers, director of the Hinckley Institute of Politics at the University of Utah. Support for Clinton and Obama has seesawed, although the latest Deseret Morning News/KSL-TV poll conducted between January 28 and 31 gives Obama a sizable edge.
In what is turning out to be a close contest, "a win is a win, and delegates count," says Jowers, even though Utah provides only 29 Democratic delegates out of 2,025.
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