What Wave?
Incumbent wins easily as Jacob's immigration challenge fizzles (Glen Warchol, The Salt Lake Tribune)
Incumbency overcame the anti-immigration wave in Utah's 3rd Congressional District Republican Primary.
Five-term Rep. Chris Cannon had a commanding lead over political newcomer John Jacob with 89 percent of the precincts reporting at press time.
Cannon had collected 56 percent of the vote to Jacob's 44, with one-fifth of Salt Lake County's ballots still to be counted.
But by 11:05 p.m. Jacob already had seen enough. He called Cannon to concede.
After the call, Cannon triumphantly told a crowd of supporters gathered at Provo's Historic Court House: "This is my sixth time running for office and this is the first concession call I've ever received."
Cannon was surprised by the margin of his lead. "I would have called it much closer than this," he said.
A poll published last weekend by The Salt Lake Tribune also predicted a tighter race.
There are a couple of ways to read this result. One is that the anti-immigrationists in the Republican party don't have nearly as much sway as they think. Another is that the result may be inconclusive, since immigration doesn't have the same impact on Utah as it does, say, on Texas.
The White House must surely be pleased, as a Jacob win couldn't have been read as anything but a rebuke.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 06/28/06 12:45 | American Politics | Technorati
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Kevin, the only real reason why Chris Cannon, a reliable conservative who was one of the House managers during the Impeachement mess, was even targeted was because...Chris Cannon made the double-plus-ungood-badtaste-fauxpas of calling out the more unsavory elements behind such groups as FAIR and CIS.
And those racists and eugenicists needed the calling out.
Posted by Brad S @ 13:25 on 06/28/06
It looks pretty ugly when you take a peek behind FAIR and CIS (who are really the same group). Although FAIR's email updates are the best and most comprehensive around, if you can stomach the editorializing. My read on this is that a solid majority of voters (including a majority of Latino voters) are in favor of increased border controls. But does being in favor of controlling the border mean being against immigration? No. So there is only so much mileage a hard core opponent of immigration can get on this issue.
Posted by Chito @ 09:58 on 06/29/06
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