Comments about ‘Vote was good and bad for both parties’

Any republican that isn't a little worried right now has his head in the sand.

I voted for a Democrat for the first time in my life this election. Not Obama but in my local election.

The Utah Republican party has gone so far to the right that it is now out of touch with my views.

They are lucky that the voter turn out among young voters was low because many of them are leaning to the left and see Obama as their leader.

That worries me.

The Utah Republicans need to find a few more moderate candidates.

What I want is a morally conservative candidate that still understands that education is the first priority for parents. That would be the same for a huge number of voters.

We don't want vouchers, charters, or "fixing" of education. We want solid local schools with well paid teachers. We want strong family values. We want to fight the garbage being put out there by Hollywood. We don't want candidates that bully people.

Is that so hard to find?

Who is the "we" in "we don't want charters"? I am assuming "we" means "UEA".

Charters are hugely popular. Charter enrollment is growing rapidly and the waiting lists are huge. More than 5% of total public school enrollment is in charter schools, and the percentage would be higher but the state can't approve new or expanded charter schools fast enough.

Your definition of "solid local schools" means the same old, same old spend more money but don't expect better results.

The U.S. has been substantially increasing per student spending over the past several decades, but we have very little improvement to show for it with regards to test scores and graduation rates.

It is interesting that education has had so much focus here and that there has been such a partisan line drawn about what supporting education means.

I have several children in Charter schools and would never discourage any one who is passionate about there child's education from them. Charter parents vary widely in the political views all the way from the very left wing to the very right wing. They also come from a wide variety of economic and racial backgrounds. And they all get along together to support great schools for our kids.

If we are really concerned about the kids education then does it matter if some are using an approach outside the traditional public education.

I think it is unfortunate the voucher situation has been viewed so negatively. The charter schools I know of are doing a great job with my kids. I will not support any candidate who wants to negatively affect charter schools.

Are you aware that charter schools are public schools? What do they have to do with vouchers? The citizens voted in support of tax dollars going to fund charter schools and public schools.

I'd have to agree with the first post.

I'm seriously disappointed with my local republicans.

Although since they built a charter school near me, my local public school has improved a ton.

Most of the parents that caused the problems took their kids to the charter. Now they whine and complain over there instead of our local school.

Not to say all charter parents are that way but they sure were over here. These are the same guys that belong to the Eagle forum and don't look at the candidate at all unless he has a big R after his name.

I won't vote for anyone that supports charters or vouchers.

Just give me a good Utah public school.

It was no surprise to me that the voter turnout was low, or that the Republicans lost.

The first fact was due to the well-founded cynicism of so much of the electorate, the second to the fact that the election was an expression of disgust with the betrayal of conservatives by their traditional party. It was a negative vote that did not endorse Obama as much as it reprehended the Bush administration.

Both facts are tied to the refusal of people to vote for so-called "third-party" candidates, and probably to the failure of the unrepresented to investigate them and their ideas, as well as the inability to see the point in voting for what you actually want when disarmed by the paralysing and self-fulfilling prophecy that a third-party "can't be elected".

What we will have, in consequence, is the same lethal bipartisan abominations of ever-increasing national debt, policing of the world at the cost of our young manhood, and doing nothing for the honest productive worker.

I voted for Pedro.