There’s a bigger disconnect between Republican voters and state delegates on the top issues facing Utah than among Democrats, according to a new Utah Foundation survey released Thursday.
The survey of state party delegates for the 2016 Utah Priorities Project found that Republican voters see health care as the most important issue, but Republican delegates place states’ rights at the top of the list.
The same delegates said public lands, also an issue seen as pitting the state against the federal government, ranked No. 4, behind state taxes and government spending, and K-12 education. Health care was sixth on their list.
GOP voters put public lands at the bottom of their top 10 list of issues and ranked states’ rights in sixth place. And two of the same voters’ priorities, crime at No. 4, and air quality at No. 7, didn’t even make the Republican delegates’ list.
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