10:33 AM Getting a little bit of a late start this morning…but give me some credit. There are 51 candidates here today and I had to run around and get pictures of as many as I could. At this point, they’ve already explained how electronic voting will work, and it means that no one will […]
McNaughton’s “One Nation Under Socialism” Harms Political Discourse
March 26, 2012 by
I’m embarrassed that the likes of Jon McNaughton are helping raise Utah’s profile nationally. Depicting Barack Obama in terms that are just short of demonic, McNaughton is harming more than hurting. Perhaps the purpose of art is to shock and persuade, but subtlety is lost on McNaughton as he uses art like a 2×4 to hit his viewers over the head with his opinions. Playing on fears and anxieties that are real, McNaughton distracts from the important educational process that is necessary to create an informed public . [cont…]
If gray hairs say anything about Hatch’s support…
March 16, 2012 by
…then tonight might have been his, at least in my precinct. At triple the turn out from two years ago, our caucus was hot, full, and gray. Gray haired, that is. Of the thirty-seven people who showed, over twenty were well into their Social Security years. [cont…]
Predictions for Tonight?
March 15, 2012 by
What’s your prediction for your caucus meeting tonight? Are you running for county or state delegate? Caucus leadership?
Do you expect a high turnout? Will high turnout benefit candidates? Will naysayers change their minds about the caucus system if turnout is high?
Do you think that Senator Hatch or his challengers will be able to stack the caucus?
Do you think it’ll be like 2010? or something entirely different?
What do you think will happen?
Are Candidates Subverting Caucus Night?
March 14, 2012 by
If you’ve ever been a state delegate, or might again be a state delegate, you’ve been flooded in recent days by a veritable forest worth of glossy mailers.
It must be getting close to Utah’s caucus night. From the number of mailers arriving each day, you would think that the election was next week, instead of in the latter half of April. In fact, it’s only the selection of delegates that is this week, and there are those out here that question whether trying to stack the caucuses so much is really very good for our system.
Enter pundit Ethan Millard. [cont…]
Utah’s March 15 Caucus: To go, or not to go…
March 12, 2012 by
Today, with the Utah caucus finally within site (it’s on Thursday at 7 PM if you’re Republican, Tuesday if you’re a Democrat…find out where to attend here), many are still questioning whether we should even have a caucus.
Why not just hold a primary? Why do we have to sit in a room with our neighbors and elect someone else to be our delegate? It would be easier to just hold a primary. [cont…]
“Time Changed Hatch” Mailer Factually Correct
February 29, 2012 by
Is Freedom Works as dishonest as Freedom Path?
This post looks at a mailer I call “Time Changed Hatch.” As with the last two mailers, I have tried to go to the primary sources and have also reached out to the Hatch reelection campaign for any kind of response they might have. They have directed me to the site realhatchrecord.com but declined to respond directly to the mailer any further. I have utilized their site to augment my research into the primary sources.
The mailer opens with the following paragraph:
“In 1976, Orrin Hatch went to Washington. And just as time has shaped Utah’s unique … [cont]
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