The Deseret News is reporting that Utahns are giving more money to Democrat Barack Obama than they are to GOP presidential candidate John McCain.

Supposedly redder-than-red Utahns have forked over $706,000 to Obama, compared to $595,000 to John McCain, even though he is toying with making Utah-beloved Mitt Romney his running mate.

And Mitt love might be McCain's problem, says Kirk Jowers, director of the UofU's Hinckley Institute of Politics. McCain has run into "donor fatigue." Romney has already wrung $5.5 million out of Utahns — more than any other candidate in history — for his doomed presidential attempt.

Of course, that fatigue would evaporate in a twinkling if McCain actually does choose Mitt as his vice presidential candidate.

Photo: Obama wows a Summit County crowd last summer.