April 23, 2012 (KUER) - Senator Orrin Hatch won a majority of delegate votes, but not enough to avoid a primary. Delegate and state representative Ronda Rudd Menlove says she\’s glad that voters will get a chance to choose between Hatch and former state Senator Dan Liljenquist.
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April 22, 2012 (National Review Online) - All the senator’s horses and all the senator’s men couldn’t quite wrap up the Utah Republican nomination for Orrin Hatch on Saturday. At the GOP convention, the seven-term senator narrowly missed winning the 60 percent of delegates he needed to avoid a primary against former state senator Dan Liljenquist.
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April 21, 2012 (National Journal) - With the state Republican convention coming up on Saturday, there\’s been a lot of polling data released on the Utah Senate race this week.
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April 21, 2012 (Reuters) - Veteran U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah will face a Republican primary fight after delegates to a party convention on Saturday denied him the nomination, forcing him into an election with a Tea Party-backed challenger who finished second.
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April 21, 2012 (Chicago Tribune) - As Utah Republicans head for a state nominating convention on Saturday, a poll suggests that veteran U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch will survive a bid by Tea Party challengers to unseat him as delegates take a more moderate turn.
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April 21, 2012 (Christian Science Monitor) - Six-term Senator Orrin Hatch entered today’s Republican nominating convention in Sandy, Utah, with the polling winds at his back, suggesting that an aggressive and historically costly campaign to beat back a tea party revolt has worked.
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April 21, 2012 (National Journal) - For Sen. Orrin Hatch, almost was not quite good enough on Saturday. \r\n \r\n By the slimmest of margins, the sixth-term senator from Utah, who seized all of the momentum in the GOP primary the last two months, failed to seal the deal at the state Republican convention, leaving him with the task of campaigning for two more months in a one-on-one race against former state Sen. Dan Liljenquist.
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April 20, 2012 (The Daily Herald) - Things are looking up. The most recent economic news shows the national unemployment rate held steady or fallen for seven months in a row, coming in at 8.2 percent for March. During that period, 1.5 million new jobs were added nationally.
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April 20, 2012 (Deseret News) - With the gap narrowing between the political views of Utah voters and party delegates, the results of Saturday\’s Republican and Democratic state conventions are expected to be more representative of the electorate.
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April 20, 2012 (KSL News) - As elections heat up in Utah, the race for the U.S. Senate seat is one to watch, with incumbent Senator Orrin Hatch looking to hold on to his seat at Saturday\’s state Republican convention.
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April 19, 2012 (Utah Policy) - Even before the March 15 GOP neighborhood caucuses, Utah political experts were saying that the big push to get more registered Republicans to those delegate-electing meetings would mean the 2012 crop of delegates would be more moderate, less angry, than the 2010 gaggle that kicked U.S. Sen. Bob Bennett out of office in the state Republican Party Convention.
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April 19, 2012 (Politico) - A new poll released Wednesday suggests Sen. Orrin Hatch is poised to win the Senate nomination at the Utah GOP convention Saturday — but just barely.
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April 19, 2012 (Utah Policy) - One unique pleasure of my job is to hit the road, to visit the great people and places of Utah. Whether they\’re visits to school districts or conventions, speaking engagements at civic clubs or commencements, meet-and-greets at the local library, bill signing ceremonies, Lincoln Day dinners, town hall or meetings in a home, I thoroughly enjoy meeting and speaking with Utahns in all corners of our state. It gives me the chance to hear their … Continued
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April 19, 2012 (Washington Times) - As Utah Republicans prepare to nominate a Senate candidate this weekend, it appears that Sen. Orrin Hatch may have bucked the anti-incumbent trend.
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April 18, 2012 (City Weekly) - Recent delegate and voter surveys find the Tea Party may be all partied out this election, and that “states’ rights” might not be the battle cry it once was. That\’s good news for moderate candidates going into the State Republican Convention this weekend, and possibly bad news for others.
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April 18, 2012 (KUER) - Utah’s Republican and Democratic parties will hold their state nominating conventions this weekend. Delegates to those conventions are political activists — people who’ve made participating in the process a high priority, and they tend to hold strong views. The Utah Foundation, a non-partisan research group, has had its eye on convention delegates and how their views differ from ordinary voters. KUER’s Dan Bammes spoke with Foundation President Steve Kroes as he went through the results … Continued
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April 18, 2012 (Utah Policy) - A just-completed poll of GOP state delegates shows U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch is on the cusp winning 60 percent of this Saturday’s state Republican Party Convention, and thus winning his record-setting seventh nomination.
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April 18, 2012 (Salt Lake Tribune) - Prospects appear rosy for Sen. Orrin Hatch to again win his party’s nomination in a primary fight, with a new Salt Lake Tribune poll showing that 62 percent of Utah Republican voters support him over the nine GOP hopefuls challenging him.
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April 18, 2012 (National Journal) - Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, remains on the precipice of avoiding a Republican primary against challenger Dan Liljenquist, according to a survey of delegates to this weekend\’s GOP convention, but a separate poll of Republican voters shows that Hatch would hold a wide lead on Liljenquist if the contest did reach the primary phase. Hatch needs to earn the support of 60 percent of delegates in order to advance directly to the general election, where he … Continued
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April 18, 2012 (Salt Lake Tribune) - Heading into Saturday’s state Republican convention, Gov. Gary Herbert boasts a solid approval rating from Utahns and would be the leading choice of Republican voters if there is a primary in the contest, according to a new poll.
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April 18, 2012 (KCPW) - A new report by the Utah Foundation shows the priorities of Republican state delegates are changing. The report finds delegates are less “tea party” oriented, putting them more in sync with voters. KCPW’s Jessica Gail reports on the survey and what it reveals about the possible outcomes for this week’s upcoming GOP convention.
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April 17, 2012 (Salt Lake Tribune) - Doubling attendance at party caucuses this year produced Republican state delegates whose views are more moderate and far more in line with voters than in the past, according to a poll of delegates and voters released Tuesday by the Utah Foundation.
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April 17, 2012 (ABC4 News) - A new poll shows that interesting races are developing among candidates vying for congressional seats in Utah.
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April 17, 2012 (Deseret News) - It’s too close to call whether Gov. Gary Herbert and Senator Orrin Hatch have enough delegate support at Saturday’s state Republican Party Convention to avoid a primary, a new poll shows.
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April 17, 2012 (KSL News) - The Utah Foundation announced the results of their 2012 Utah Priorities Survey Tuesday at the University of Utah’s Hinckley Institute of Politics.
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