What went wrong?
Don't tell Chris Buttars, the Eagle Forum or Comedy Central — but Utah is no longer the most whacked-out, conservative state in the galaxy.According to a Mason Dixon poll of likely voters, our corner-chewing, fire crackers-and-malt liquor-peddling neighbor Wyoming has taken over the top position.
The handful of humans with phones in the in the Wild Wonderful state believe the following:
81 percent say gun-control laws are too restrictive. (What! There's gun control in Wyoming?)On the last point, Utahns proved more hardcore than Wyomites, with 61 percent of Beehivers saying, trash, trash, trash the enviro — but drill, drill, drill.
77 percent want to stop illegal immigration with a border fence (all the way around Wyoming).
47 percent support deporting illegal immigrants (presumably to Utah where do-anything-to-be-a-Congressman Jason Chaffetz will put them in tent camps).
74 percent support drilling for oil and gas on public lands.
51 percent say that drilling is more important than protecting the environment.
McCain, of course has an enormous lead over Obama in Wyoming, only because Generalissimo Francisco Franco is too dead to be a write-in candidate.
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Barr is now on 45 state ballots across the United States, and is on track to be on 47 to 48 ballots.
Nationwide polls show Barr receiving support from between 1 to 2 percent of voters (or about 1 in 50 American voters), and between 8 to 11 percent support in some battleground states.
Only a handful of other presidential candidates can claim the same thing.
The CEO of MediaNews (which owns the Tribune), William Dean Singleton, was a significant financial supporter of Republican U.S. President George W. Bush.
Glen, Glen, what went wrong? I figured your last stab at Hatch would have cured you of bashing any republican that talks..
Even though Jason has called for a federal detention facility in the west to house federal prisoners. Only those convicted of a crime would be housed in this facility. Federal prisoners who are not violent criminals are often released because there is no prison space to hold them. The detention facility would house those who are convicted of federal crimes – whether or not these people are illegal aliens.
Jason has also suggested that tent facilities similar to those in Arizona are good enough for our soldiers in Iraq and should be good enough for our federal prisoners here at home.
The obvious question, is providing Jason is elected, which I believe will happen, how is he going to pass state laws?
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