From Deseret News archives:
Utahns shift their support to McCain in a new poll
McCain, the GOP's presumptive nominee, was the choice of 65 percent of those polled over Clinton, and 62 percent when matched up against Obama. That's a big change from February, when McCain mustered support from only 30 percent of Utahns surveyed.
The poll was conducted by Dan Jones & Associates of 604 registered voters statewide May 13-19 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percent.
While Clinton won Tuesday's Kentucky primary and boosted her delegate total to an estimated 1,776, Obama continued to approach the 2,026 delegate total needed to become the Democratic nominee, finishing the night with an estimated 1,956 delegates.
Even though the latest poll results show Utahns are warming up to McCain, when Utah's delegation to this year's Republican National Convention casts the state's 36 votes for a presidential nominee, it may not be for the Arizona senator.
The state Republican Party's current rules require that all of Utah's delegates continue to back Mitt Romney, who had 90 percent of the vote in Utah's winner-take-all Feb. 5 GOP presidential primary.
Even so, action on a resolution to change the rules so Romney's delegates would be free to vote for McCain was postponed at the state GOP convention earlier this month. Now it's up to the party's central committee.
So far, though, there seems to be little interest in dealing with the topic at the next meeting of the state party's central committee on June 14. The committee is made up of 200 or so party leaders from around the state.
"The best way to say it is there seems to be sentiment from the delegates at the convention that they preferred to have us vote on the first ballot for Mitt Romney," said Utah Republican Party Chairman Stan Lockhart. "It's too soon to tell what the end result will be."
Complicating the issue is an apparent move by some supporters of yet another Republican presidential contender, Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, to, in the words of one party official, "hijack" Utah's delegate votes. It's a tactic that has been successful in other states, including Nevada.
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