Several Salt Lake County GOP senators and House members voted for the private school voucher bill in the 2007 Legislature, only to see their own constituents vote against vouchers in the November 2007 citizen referendum. In some districts, pro-voucher GOP incumbents saw their constituents vote against vouchers 2-to-1.

Democrats and anti-voucher advocates plan on making those contrary legislative votes part of those individual re-elections this fall.

Meanwhile, Jones found that 62 percent of Utahns say they get "a lot" of their legislative campaign information from traditional media sources — from newspapers, radio and TV. That number far outweighs other sources of legislative campaign information.

Forty-four percent of citizens said they get "none" of their legislative information from campaign ads or telephone calls by candidates or special interest groups; 55 percent said they get "some" of their information from candidate ads on radio and TV; and 65 percent said they get "none" of their campaign information from actually talking to legislative candidates personally.

Family and friends remain a good source of legislative candidate information, Jones found.

But only about half of all Utahns said they get any information about candidates from political parties. That doesn't bode well for the state Republican Party's "I Can" PR campaign, soon to be kicked off, that seeks to tell Utahns that they have been well-served for decades by Republican state officeholders.

Finally, some GOP senators have started a concerted effort to discredit traditional media sources in legislative reporting — and the 62 percent of Utahns saying they get "a lot" of their legislative information from traditional media is not a good number for that effort, as well.

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