From Deseret News archives:
Utahns vote for Romney, Obama
All 36 Utah national GOP delegates go to Romney since Utah, like many GOP primaries, are winner-take-all. Romney was running above 80 percent of the vote in early returns.
But Obama, a U.S. senator from Illinois, and Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., will split the 23 Democratic delegates based on how much of the vote each got in Utah's three U.S. House districts. And so Obama could end up with just 12 delegates to Clinton's 11 delegates, Utah Democratic leaders said.
Both the Associated Press and Barack's own campaign claimed victory in Utah shortly after the polls closed at 8 p.m.
There is little doubt what will happen in Utah come November one of the most red states in the Union, Utahns have not voted for a Democrat for president since Lyndon Johnson carried the state in 1964. So whether the ultimate GOP nominee is Romney, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., or former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, he can safely count on the Beehive State.
"We think voter turnout overall will be between 30 percent to 40 percent. And that is very good," said DuBois. Most of those voters will be Republicans. Even if Romney doesn't go on to win the nomination simply having a favorite son in the middle of the presidential election is exciting Utahns, said DuBois.
"We will be carrying a lot of energy into November here," he added.
Utah Democratic Party executive director Todd Taylor says he is most pleased by the number of Utahns who voted in the Utah primary, one of 24 Democratic contests across the states this "Super Tuesday."
Earlier Tuesday, before polls closed and actual ballot counting started, Taylor said perhaps as many as 100,000 Utahns could vote in the Democratic Party three times the turnout in the previous presidential primaries here in 1992, 2000 and 2004.
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