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Utah isn't on map for presidential candidates

No wonder that the presidential candidates have crossed Utah off their travel schedules. According to the political polling website Pollster.com, Utah enjoys the highest polling for the Republican ticket with a 63.9% favorable rating and one of the lowest Democratic favorable rating of 29.6% (only Idaho has a lower Democratic favorable rating of 29.5%.) So, it would be a complete waste of time and money for either the Republican or Democratic candidates to travel to Utah. The 8 swing states of course are getting most of the attention.

If there were no electoral college, Salt Lake City would surely be a large enough metropolitan area to merit visits from all of the candidates.

By always voting for the same party we have made Utah almost irrelevant in politics. Republicans ignore Utah because they take us for granted: Southern Republicans even make fun of LDS, that's much we're taken for granted. The Democrats don't even bother.

I lived in Iowa which is conservative values but swings from Democrat to Republican and gets the attention of both. We need to balance the economy for regular people with conservative values.

Why oh why would you vote for McCain anyway. He's dissed a large number of Utahans anyway. He's out of touch with the electorate, he knocking on heavens door and if he goes, we get Palin. I wouldn't mind a woman for president, but not this sock puppet! I encourage anyone who is disgusted with the broken republican party to cast a vote for Ralph Nader. The last honest man in politics. McCain stands a snowballs chance of winning anyway..the party blew this bigtime with the huckabee-McCain bag-o-dirty tricks. Let's show em Utah. Send a wake up call, that all is not well.

Utah needs to hold their presidential primary's Jan. 15 2012.

Or right after the 2010 Winter Olympics,
that would get their attention!

This really says a lot about the state of politics in Utah. Again, your party takes full advantage of your votes and money, but never delivers anything that you guys ever vote for: the banning of abortion & gay marriage. Step up! Think about the real issues at play, and maybe in the future you'll be taken a bit more seriously.

"Utah isn't on map for presidential candidates"

No brainer.

With Utah's blind loyalty to the party of huge budget deficits, why should anyone bother to show up?

States are courted by the candidates like the girls are courted in high school. The guys just don't have to spend effort on girls that are easy. Ohio is playing hard to get and look at the effort the candidates are expending.
It seems counter intuitive but if Utah whats attention it needs a stronger Democratic party in order to be a player.

Of course not. The LDS church has spoken and we know the choice is already made. No matter what the last 8 years have been like (the majority of LDS thinks its been fine) they - the mormons - will vote for more of the same.

Utah tends to be a red voting state. McCain probably knows its in the bag for him. He is smart to spend his time in the swing states. Obama knows Utah is a waste of his time.!

Utah will vote Republican like all good sheep do.

They didn't list Idaho as one of the states they are stopping at either. Shouldn't they also be considered the "Rodney Dangerfield" of states?

Why should candidates waste their time in a state where the results are known before the candidates are even known?

Why should any candidate bother to visit a state that has brought into the socialist Wall Street bailout, huge budget deficit Republican policies hook, line, and sinker?

It's odd that this even rates as news. Utah is a one party theocratic state.

Unless a significantly large portion of the population suddenly moves to Missouri, I don't see Utah becoming a part of the presidential campaign schedule probably ever. If you know what I mean.

Um. It's clear why Utah doesn't get any political respect. There are too many mindless voters who see the little "R" and have already decided. Dear mindless voters: Democrats will not mandate abortions and force the Church to start marrying gays in the temple. Consider the American worker when you vote this year. Also, consider how it feels to be the thankless rubber-stamp for ANY candidate from the GOP, a party that doesn't even like Mormons, but will gladly take the vote.

If Utah wants to be on the political map, then change sides for once. Go blue. "Utah voted democrat?" What could be more shocking in a presidential election? By creating a new paradigm Utah would be on the front pages and become in time an influential battlefield state.

In this election, family values - the keystone reasons behind the red in Utah - are far more present in the Democrats than in the Republicans. It's time to let go of the traditional political indoctrination. It's time to burn some brain cells thinking in this election. Send a potent message: Utahns are not political sheep. You want us, come and get us.

In Utah, Obama would lose to a mop handle as long as it had an "R" next to its name. Joe the Plumber got more national press than the entire state of Utah this election! Joe the Plumber's plight is the subject of many discussions...who's discussing Utahns' plight?