National Democratic Trend Skips Utah
While the national results show the Democratic candidates ahead by about 5% to 10%, in Utah we didn’t see any change in partisan results.
State Democratic Party officials say that Utah results improved just over 4% statewide over the historic average trend. But we didn’t win any elections on that rise, so I think it’s nothing but systematic bias based on changes in which races Democrats and Republicans targeted in this cycle.
For example, Democrats challenged Republicans in Iron and Washington county for the first time in years and Republicans challenged Democrats in districts like Sentate District 2 where former senator Paula Julander was unchallenged in 2002. None of those candidates won, but our long shots did better than their long shots.
Lucky for America, it looks like the trend did hit in our neighboring western states. Colorado and Arizona are sending more Democrats to Congress and Colorado has a new Dem governor. Wyoming and New Mexico may yet elect more Democratic congressmen.
