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News analysis: Utah isn't on map for presidential candidates
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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.
Or right after the 2010 Winter Olympics,
that would get their attention!
No brainer.
It seems counter intuitive but if Utah whats attention it needs a stronger Democratic party in order to be a player.
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.
We have examples of what happens when people like Obama get elected. Think Detroit writ large. It's a frightening, frightening thought.
We (LDS Utahns) have thrown our lot in with the evangelical religious right which has nothing but contempt for us. This was a mistake.
We are, however, waking up . . . hopefully. Romney's shameful treatment members of his own party was the first wake-up call. There will be more.
Due to the electoral college, there are very few states that candidates visit. We just moved from Massachusetts and nobody visits that state either (those mindless sheep-like Democrats!).
We should count ourselves lucky - no endless stream of political advertisements!
Let's see, what was that word............NO!
McCain/Palin 08
Try talking your state legislators into honoring black people on Martin Luther King Day (like the rest of the country) and perhaps you might someday be known as something other than "a peculiar people" (actual description from their last prophet).
small businesses are terrified.
the stock market is dropping like a rock.
Just wait until he gets elected.
Depression!
/get your food storage now!
I want the GI's back from Iraq - With the cost of a war out of the way maybe a balanced budget is possible or the money can be used else where
I want an end to the religious right control of policy and law and leave that up the to the free agency of the person
I want an end of eight years of blown opportunities to still be a world leader
I want to be part of an historic moment when this country for the most part will shed its racial image by not caring about the color of a mans skin for a position of high office.
Please do not count me as one of the so called Utah sheep - It is unfair who will vote correctly
Quite frankly, the state disses itself. If the state does not care about its politics then it should play no role in national politics.
Vote for Jason Chaffetz.
DN: Please tell us something we didn't already know.
NEXT!
Wake up!!!!!
Your candidate, McCain, is pro-choice.
He (like his opponent) is for some sort of recognition of gay relationships, though not marriage.
They are the same in those two important issues.
The Republicans are the big spenders now.
It is the Republicans who have driven us into this horrendous national debt.
It is the Republican deregulation of the financial institutions which has made possible this huge financial crisis of credit and debt.
Your party is not what it once was.
They can't even be bothered to stop by for 5 minutes to say thanks.
It's time to kill the electoral college system.
It's pointless to go to the polls for the presidentail election in this state, although I will. My vote and yours are meaningless here in Utah because of the electoral college.
It's a presidential election. Every vote should count, but it doesn't.
So Dem's get out there and make your presence felt, even if only for the statement.
Republicans, get your heads out of the sand and really look at your party. It's changed.
The article should have summed things up with one word to describe this phenomenon - ABORTION.
Think about it, when I was growing up in the 60's and 70's, we had a Democrat in the Senate (Frank Moss) and Democratic governors (Matheson and Rampton) who were very popular.
The minute that Republican's announced their opposition to Roe v Wade, Utah embraced the GOP and became irrelevant nationally.
So, what has the embrace of the GOP gotten Utah after all these years?
Is abortion illegal yet?
Has Roe v Wade been overturned?
Now, keep in mind that 7 of 9 Supreme Court Justices have been appointed by Republican Presidents.
Seems to me that the rich NY Wall Street Tycoons have made out like bandits by embracing the religous voters, without having to give much on the legal front.
This will continue to be the case until voters start voting on more than the abortion issue.
As for me, I have a hard time seeing where the GOP has given Utah their moneys worth.
All of you Mormon bashers whining about the big, bad Mormon church controlling politics in Utah - drink your milk and go back to bed. I remeber living in or near Utah in the days when Utah had a Democratic Governor, one Democratic senator and one Democratic congressman - back when Utah only had two congressman - all at the same time. I may be old but I'm not that old so please stop your complaining about the power of the Mormon Church and go out and tell your neighbors that the teachings of the Mormon Church actually line up with the Democratic platform far more than the Republican platform. OF COURSE, there's that abortion issue that has everybody seeing red. But it's just that, a red herring to get the majority to stop investigating and just thinking Republican. Stop whining and do your job.
utah has earned this no-show status .. maybe we can get out and vote a different way and bring some respect back to this stupid political state
remember the new slogan in utah for voting ... incumbents out .. challengers in ...
huntsman out , matheson out, hatch out , bennett out, bishop out (cannon is already out)
quit voting like sheep as mentioned above ... get new blood around instead of the same-old same old
good luck on your vote
Well its called the 50 State Strategy, and it means that the Obama campaign made the strategic decision ahead of time to have a presence in each state, regardless of its likelihood to be red or blue.
It's the right thing to do, and its paid off dramatically in small donors/donation and feet on the ground.
Hundreds of campaign volunteers are going weekly to Nevada and Colorado (both swing states) and will be there on election day as well.
the 50 State Strategy has not only solidified small (and large bases) in the states that are givens but have electrified the dialogue. and its working.
McCain takes you for granted. Obama wants you to be heard by him, even though he knows in the end you won't elect him.
What does that tell you?
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