Bryan Gray:
"It’s easy to offend people. As local author Terry Tempest Williams said, “Every time you pick up your pencil, you betray someone.”
And it is even easier to ruffle feathers as a politician. Humorist Jimmy Fallon noted last week, “Mitt Romney went three for three by winning primaries in Maryland, Wisconsin, and Washington D.C. Not to be outdone, Rick Santorum went three for three by offending women, atheists, and Latinos.”
Orrin Hatch’s re-election bid can be seen similarly. In office since Methuselah was a tyke, Hatch has had a long period and thousands of speeches in which to offend someone.
This year his main opponent is Bountiful business owner, Dan Liljenquist, unknown to most of the state. That’s an advantage for Liljenquist since we cannot be offended by someone we’ve never heard of.
Forget all the campaign talk about experience and super PACs and Liljenquist’s work on state benefit issues. The key to this election, according to an extensive Cyclops poll, is the “Offensive Scale.”...."
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