A test case on whether last year's school voucher fiasco will have political repercussions is unfolding in Cottonwood Heights. Moderate-Republican incumbent state Sen. Charlene Walker, left, faces purpley Democrat former state Rep. Karen Morgan. The only real difference between the two politically is that Walker supported education vouchers and Morgan did not.

The major issue: The conservative GOP-controlled Legislature narrowly passed what would have been the nation's most comprehensive private school voucher program. The state's voters overwhelmingly overturned the proposal as soon as a referendm vote could be scheduled. Anti-voucher groups, including the powerful teachers union vowed November would bring a Tuesday of reckoning for politicians who backed vouchers.

Senate District 8 overwhelmingly opposed vouchers and Walker — Hello!, says she has seen the light:

I won't support vouchers again — the people have spoken, they hate it.

Morgan counters that the people clearly spoke their hate for vouchers in polls long before Walker's vote on the bill.