Posted on 05/08/2010 12:15:32 PM PDT by opentalk
A Republican senator from Utah is set to lose the party's nomination on Saturday and become a high-profile casualty of the Tea Party movement.
After 18 years representing the western state, Bob Bennett, 76, faces the wrath of party activists who think he has drifted too far to the middle ground and become too identified with broken central government.
He will be opposed at caucuses by eight opponents all to his Right politically who have all sought the endorsement of the state's active Tea Party groups.
Under Utah's quirky rules, without 40 per cent of the vote at Saturday's party convention he cannot proceed to a Republican primary in June to decide who will represent the party in November's midterm election.
Whichever Republican is chosen will almost certainly win, as Utah is one of the most solidly Republican states in the US and has not returned a Democrat to the senate since 1977.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
But Lee will have to run against a Dem, can he win?
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