Comments about ‘Polls favor Democrats in S.L. County races’

6.5 percent margin of error? What a craptastic poll.

Corroon, Horiuchi, Matheson and all other Democratic candidates benefit immensely from the positive/un-negative coverage they get from Utah's lapdog media.

Nancy Workman thought about running for Clerk? Are you kidding me? What's next, Enid Green running for ethics csar?

No thanks Nancy. WE DONT WANT/NEED YOU!!!

An small island of sanity in a ocean of delusions.

The really surprising thing is how close these two races are, given the huge disparity in money and publicity the incumbents have received. Particularly so with Horiuchi, leading only by five percent?

Go Peter... I just get frustrated with the Mormon religion that actually preaches Republican in sacrament meeting. I don't know how a Democrat could make it. It is so brainwashingly dispicable.

And sweep Obama in with the SL democrates! Let's show the country that Utah no longer walks lockstep into the darkness with the GOP!

Who's game to give DNC a try, and tell the GOP, No McCain, no Palin.

You mean all those people saying Utahns will only vote Republican where wrong?? Shocking!!

anon 3:30, I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that you haven't been to a sacrament meeting of the "Mormon religion" in at least 10 years, if ever. So how would you know that they "preach Republican". I'm LDS and a Democrat and I've NEVER ONCE heard the word Republican said over the pulpit. I'm as tired of Utah's politics as anyone, but don't spread lies about the LDS church.

This is crazy. Corruption is running rampant in the GOP. Why would anyone vote for them AGAIN?

I havent followed what Horiuchi has done while in office, so I cannot comment on his effectiveness. I did see him make a fool of himself on TV a few months ago.

One of the TV news stations had him on with a representative of the payday lending industry to talk about an ordinance he was proposing to limit payday lenders. One of the first things Horiuchi said in support of his ordinance was that payday lenders were not regulated by any governmental agency, then he went on to enumerate various ills of payday lenders.

What Horiuchi did not know was that payday lenders are regulated by the state of Utah. The Utah Department of Financial Institutions sends examiners into payday lenders all the time. By first stating that payday lenders are not regulated, he destroyed his credibility.

Had he known that payday lenders were regulated, he could have perhaps made a credible argument about the weakness of the regulation and the need to strengthen it, but by being so woefully ill-prepared he severely damaged his and his constituents cause.

We need someone better informed if we want protection from rapacious payday lenders.

I don,t know where you get your information. I have never heard of the mormon church telling it's members how to vote.News to me.

Corroon is a true nice guy...it is sad that the people he has given execuitve jobs may be the down-fall of his administration and is too late to fix that ..Nancy would be proud!

Anon 3:30 - I've NEVER heard "Republican [preached] in sacrament meeting," and I'm active in the LDS Church. I'd like to know where you heard that.

Good for Salt Francisco!

In my opinion, Mayor Corroon's margin is due in large measure to his handling of the Real Salt Lake controversy. He, unlike others in government, actually studied whether giving tax money to RSL for its new stadium in Sandy would benefit the citizens of Salt Lake County. After a thorough investigation, including obtaining an opinion from outside experts, he decided that the deal was not a good deal for County taxpayers, and he rejected it.

It was only the intervention of the Legislature and the Governor that gave life to the deal. In my view, if they had done the same homework that Corroon did, they would have reached the same conclusions he reached. But they didn't. In any event, his method of handling the proposal is the kind of approach that all government leaders ought to take when faced with proposals for major expenditures of tax money.

I've been to hundreds of sacrament meetings and have never once heard Republican preached. You must be confusing us with another religion. I think maybe your the one who is brainwashed.

And there is no corruption in the Democrat Party?

Observation must own one of those loansharking payday lender outfits Horiuchi was right 350 percent interest is criminal.