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.)
Its the truth. It happens over and over again in history.
The battle may be lost but there are many battles to be fought before we achieve victory.
Yes and I learned how to construct a sentence. You on the other hand....
Despite all the hype and efforts of the Tancredo PAC to energize voters and make this a defining issue, under 20% of Utah voters cared enough to vote. Of those that did, Cannon won by a double digit margin.
Seems pretty clear to me.
Smoke that steer doo-dee and talk to me later.
Its one battle in a long war.
UTAH is DOOOMED!
Stop freebasing that doo-dee.
The most Republican state in the union. Yep, it's doomed.
You can inform your supplier that they do indeed work.
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He is snorting that steer doo-dee that is in his backyard.
The spin has started.
I hate to break this to you but you folks fired off your big guns and achieve nothing. This wasn't a battle it was a slaughter.
Indeed. Garbage in, garbage out. The voters didn't cotton much to outsiders.
How so?
PING!
LOL! At this rate you folks might have a shot at the 3008 race. I hate to point out the obvious (again) but you folks had all your eggs in this basket...and dropped it. You keep wanting to compare this to the civil war...this wasn't even a blip.
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