LOL! Whatever, 
Posted on 06/27/2006 10:32:40 PM PDT by Spiff
Jacobs Concedes, Cannon Moves on to General Election
June 27th, 2006 @ 11:12pm
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- U.S. Rep. Chris Cannon, challenged by a political newcomer who accused the five-term incumbent of being soft on illegal immigration, was leading in Utah's Republican primary Tuesday with more than half of precincts reporting.
Cannon led John Jacob 58 percent to 42 percent, or 19,575 votes to 14,395 votes, with 313 of 623 precincts reporting. That includes 100 percent of returns from Juab, Beaver and Millard counties.
The 3rd Congressional District race focused primarily on who stands taller in opposition to Bush's call for a path to citizenship for some 11 million illegal immigrants.
Cannon voted last December for a House bill that would toughen border security, criminalize people who help illegal immigrants and make being in the U.S. without the required papers a felony. But he also supports Bush's proposal for a guest-worker program and says "there's massive room for negotiation."
Cannon's willingness to compromise made him a target of Team America, a conservative group that calls illegal immigration the most critical problem facing the nation. It spent $40,000 on radio ads criticizing him.
Jacob, a millionaire real-estate developer, favors returning illegal immigrants to their home countries before giving them a shot at U.S. citizenship and punishing businesses for hiring them.
At the state Republican convention last month, Jacob captured 52 percent of the delegate votes while Cannon got 48 percent. Sixty percent was needed to avoid Tuesday's primary.
The winner will face Democrat Christian Burridge, among others, in November in a district that anyone but a Republican has little chance of winning. Bush carried the 3rd District with 77 percent of the vote in 2004.
The sprawling district, which stretches south from Salt Lake County and west to Nevada, is heavily Mormon and predominantly white. Hispanics make up about 10 percent of the population; blacks less than 1 percent.
In 1996, Cannon won the seat, in part by arguing that the Democratic incumbent, U.S. Rep. Bill Orton, was soft on immigration. In 2004, Cannon's actions on the issue prompted conservatives to back Matt Throckmorton, who managed 42 percent in his GOP primary loss.
(Copyright 2006 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
Unlike Souther California, from what I gather most voters in Utah do not feel that their distinct Utah culture is threaten by illegal immigration.
Mormon aren't the only ones being soft on pro-border security.
I attend an Evangelical church that welcomed representatives of the Mexican Consulate one Sunday morning. They were informing Hispanics in my church on ways to make American life easier for them.
Your elitism is showing very clearly.
Something is rotten in Denmark. Or at least the one you live in
Now the bitter tancredoites are spitting their venom at the Mormon's.
And you posted this to me? Why?
I could care less about Cannon's religion or Jacob's for that matter. I simply mentioned that both candidates were members of the same religion as a way to point out that religion played no part in this contest.
My support for Jacob was not based upon the "tancredoites" as you call them. I supported Jacob when Buchanan/Tancredo still supported Merril Cook in this race. I thought Jacob was a better candidate so don't put your emotional baggage on me.
I for one could not understand why Cannon was even being challenged. That said, immigration is an issue that can be used for the GOP in the mid-terms. The House listening tour will confirm that.
If you go to Cannon's website, you will notice the prominent banner scrolling across the page, "Stop illegal immigration." Cannon was forced to demonstrate that he is a hardliner, enforcement first supporter on illegal immigration and secure borders. He obviously felt that his stance on immigration was a key factor in the primary. He didn't come out and support the Senate bill or the President's comprehensive reform approach.
I could care less about Cannon's religion or Jacob's for that matter. I simply mentioned that both candidates were members of the same religion as a way to point out that religion played no part in this contest.
Uh because you live in Utah and just pointing out the venom that the bitter tancredoites are now spewing.
"It's the Mormon's fault" is the new tancredo battlecry(insult).
Bay Buchanan's demonizing of a good conservative did not work. The voters saw through the unfairness of Buchanan's cheap tricks.
Now Jacob can concentrate in fighting his demons or devils
But the administration's shamnesty open-borders policies got gutted like a fish.
In short, you lost. And you will continue to lose.
LOL! Whatever,
Okay, you do realise I'm a MINO (Mormon in name only.)
They don't claim me, and I left them behind years ago, but my name is still on there rolls since I was born into it.
There are a lot of us here in Utah. We go by the names Jack-Mormon, Ex-Mormon, Anti-Mormon and Born-Again Mormon. It shouldn't make any difference to you however, as long as "conservative" is included in that title.
The "good guy" soiled his pants wondering if his political career would survive last night.
The "good guy" knows he faces new opposition from steadfast party regulars beginning this morning.
If the "good guy" doesn't repudiate his pro-shamnesty positions he will be cleanly defeated at the 2008 Utah State Republican Convention, with no help from Bay Buchanan.
This could all get very interesting.
If the lefty candidate Obrador wins the election in Mexico, then there will be no more friendly Fox/Bush link across the Rio Grande.
The American population will turn hard against that kind of "threat," and Congressional candidates won't be able to throw money at a border fence fast enough.
Interesting summer!
JMO, it ain't Chris Cannon who is soiling his pants.
LOL! You are really defacating bricks over this, JC.
To bad those bricks aren't made of gold, you'd be a very rich man.
And for you to think that a VERY conservative candidate who is wrong on this particular issue, and who had a serious primary challenge, is evidence there isn't a "problem" with being pro-illegal, then I have a bridge to sell you.
Bilbray, who was a total RINO in all other things, won SOLELY on illegals. It's a huge, huge issue, and all your wishing won't wish it away.
Eventually you will get over it.
Typical of the name calling. Doesn't change a thing. It's a monster issue, and if it hasn't reached critical mass yet, it will, very very soon.
If it can't reach critical mass in one the most conservative districts in the US, I doubt it will elesewhere.
But what the hey I'm not a professor on such things. All I have to go on is voting results from a race that had immigration as it's focal point and the voters in that district gave it a big old yawn.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1657043/posts#comment?q=1
I'll take a senate victory over a temporary House primary defeat any day of the week.
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