Red rock goes blue
Mitt Romney may have wowed Utah Republicans, taking a preposterous 90 percent of the vote. But in some very special places in our state, he got his clock cleaned by Barack Obama.
In Gran
d County. Obama took 708 votes to Mitt's 534. The apparent reason is Utah's outdoor recreation capital Moab. Obviously, any place that claims Ed Abbey as a native son and extolls the Monkey Wrench Gang — is not a stronghold for a venture capitalist.
Of course, Mitt wasn't running against Obama in Grand County, they were in their own parties' primaries. There Mitt stomped McCain, 66 percent of the vote to 19 percent, and Obama whipped Clinton, 65 percent to 30 percent.
Still, if a presidential contest between Romney and Obama would have been held yesterday — Obama would have won by a landslide in red rock country.
He also would have edged Mitt out in Summit County (Park City, Deer Valley), where Mitt owns a home!
On the other hand, in Carbon County (Price), Hillary Clinton not only beat Obama, but she slipped past Romney out 1,040 votes to 1,017.
In Gran
d County. Obama took 708 votes to Mitt's 534. The apparent reason is Utah's outdoor recreation capital Moab. Obviously, any place that claims Ed Abbey as a native son and extolls the Monkey Wrench Gang — is not a stronghold for a venture capitalist.Of course, Mitt wasn't running against Obama in Grand County, they were in their own parties' primaries. There Mitt stomped McCain, 66 percent of the vote to 19 percent, and Obama whipped Clinton, 65 percent to 30 percent.
Still, if a presidential contest between Romney and Obama would have been held yesterday — Obama would have won by a landslide in red rock country.
He also would have edged Mitt out in Summit County (Park City, Deer Valley), where Mitt owns a home!
On the other hand, in Carbon County (Price), Hillary Clinton not only beat Obama, but she slipped past Romney out 1,040 votes to 1,017.
1 Comments:
Congratulations to Glen Warchol. He has discovered that rural mining counties and counties whose economies are based off of tourism are Democratic. That's amazing.
Also, we landed on the moon. Just thought you should know.
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