Ed Morrissey:
"Allahpundit wrote a lengthy piece about last night’s CNN poll, complete with some insightful commentary about the cross-tabs. If you missed it — and by the number of comments on the post, it doesn’t appear than many of you have — be sure to read it now. However, the sample data, as AP pointed out, lacked a few details, most prominent of which was the partisan split of the sampling. Given the inclination of media polls to use wildly unrepresentative D/R/I splits in their samples, the lack of transparency on that point is telling.
That might not be the biggest problem with the poll, though. Its biggest problem is … math. Reader Raymond O did some math and asked a rather interesting set of questions in an e-mail last night about how CNN did theirs. First, let’s start with the topline results, as reported by CNN: Obama 52%, Romney 43% among registered voters, 53/41 among all respondents. If that’s the case, then the number of respondents in the latter case voting for Obama should be 538, and the number supporting Romney 416....."
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Tuesday, April 17, 2012
SandBox Utah Politico "Hatch sells seniority in Utah debate"
David Catanese:
"DRAPER, Utah — In 1976, Orrin Hatch won his Senate seat by campaigning on a famously catchy slogan: “What do you call a senator who’s served in office for 18 years? You call him home.”
Now it’s coming back to haunt him.
On Wednesday evening, in the first of two debates with his two main challengers for the Republican nomination, the same argument that propelled Hatch to victory nearly four decades ago was used against him, forcing the longest serving politician in Utah history to defend his bid for a seventh Senate term.
Former state Sen. Dan Liljenquist, a baby-faced one-term lawmaker who poses the most potent threat to Hatch, sought to force the incumbent to answer for the explosion of federal spending during his long tenure....." (Read more? Click title)
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"DRAPER, Utah — In 1976, Orrin Hatch won his Senate seat by campaigning on a famously catchy slogan: “What do you call a senator who’s served in office for 18 years? You call him home.”
Now it’s coming back to haunt him.
On Wednesday evening, in the first of two debates with his two main challengers for the Republican nomination, the same argument that propelled Hatch to victory nearly four decades ago was used against him, forcing the longest serving politician in Utah history to defend his bid for a seventh Senate term.
Former state Sen. Dan Liljenquist, a baby-faced one-term lawmaker who poses the most potent threat to Hatch, sought to force the incumbent to answer for the explosion of federal spending during his long tenure....." (Read more? Click title)
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SandBox Utah: KSL Utah "Utah politicians outraged at push to make Arizona strip national monument"
Amy Joi O'Donoghue:
"SALT LAKE CITY — A push by environmental groups for a possible national monument designation along the Arizona Strip is provoking outrage among Utah politicians who say it will kill ranching jobs, permanently extinguish any uranium mining in the area and possibly derail the Lake Powell pipeline.
They also say the proposal is a harkening to the 1996 designation by then-President Bill Clinton, who made the sweeping declaration to create the Grand Staircase- Escalante National Monument, closing off for development 1.7 million acres of coal-rich country in southern Utah.
Clinton made the announcement with virtually no warning to Utah's elected leaders — a move that came during a re-election campaign, similar to the election timing facing President Obama..."
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SandBox Utah: Salt Lake Tribune "Hatch, Liljenquist disagree on protection of rights "
Mark Havnes:
"Sen. Orrin Hatch faced his top two Republican opponents in a debate here Monday night.
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"Sen. Orrin Hatch faced his top two Republican opponents in a debate here Monday night.
Hatch, former state Rep. Chris Herrod and former state Sen. Dan Liljenquist took questions for more than an hour from members of Washington County Republican Women, which sponsored the debate at Dixie State College....." (Read more? Click title)
SandBox Utah: Deseret News "Rev. Jeffress endorses Mitt Romney and shared values"
Joseph Walker:
"Last October, Rev. Robert Jeffress, a Baptist megachurch pastor and supporter of then-presidential candidate Rick Perry, launched a media firestorm of reaction and criticism when he belittled Mitt Romney's presidential bid by referring to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints – to which Romney belongs – as a non-Christian cult.
On Sunday, Rev. Jeffress officially endorsed Mitt Romney for president because President Barack Obama "opposes Biblical principles."...." (Read more? Click title)
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"Last October, Rev. Robert Jeffress, a Baptist megachurch pastor and supporter of then-presidential candidate Rick Perry, launched a media firestorm of reaction and criticism when he belittled Mitt Romney's presidential bid by referring to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints – to which Romney belongs – as a non-Christian cult.
On Sunday, Rev. Jeffress officially endorsed Mitt Romney for president because President Barack Obama "opposes Biblical principles."...." (Read more? Click title)
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SandBox Utah: Criminal Justice News "Ohio Man Faces Federal Indictment in Utah for Hacking into Utah Law Enforcement Websites "
Sergeant Zachary J. Foster
"SALT LAKE CITY—John Anthony Borell III, age 21, of Toledo, Ohio, is charged with two counts of computer intrusion in a federal indictment unsealed Monday morning in Salt Lake City. The indictment alleges Borell hacked into protected computers without authorization on two occasions in January and intentionally caused damage to servers hosting websites for two Utah law enforcement agencies.
The first count of the indictment charges Borell with an intrusion on January 19, 2012 involving a server hosting a website for the Utah Chiefs of Police Association. The second count alleges a similar attack on January 31, 2012 on the server hosting the Salt Lake City Police Department website. Each count of the indictment alleges the offense caused a loss of more than $5,000.
Borell was arrested in Ohio on March 20, 2012 on a federal complaint. The indictment was returned April 4, 2012. He will be arraigned on the indictment in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City Monday at 12:30 p.m. The arraignment will be in U.S. Magistrate Judge Sam Alba’s courtroom. Borell has been in a halfway house in Ohio pending his appearance in Utah....." (Read more? Click title)
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