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.)
Boing!
Thanks for the correction!
Not my quote.
Do the two of you mind not gloating until we beat the crap out of the democrats in November ?
I do not care for the single issue voters on FR either but all that happened tonite is Utah republicans chose their candidate.
No celebrations until we see Pelosi and Reid resume their jobs as Minority Leaders in January.
Which is why it's all the more important to expose those who will do anything to unseat conservative Congressmen in the primaries.
Sorry but my gloating is reserved for that snake Tancredo. I hope he is made to suffer and be relegated to errand boy in the house.
I guess it's time to fire off an angry e-mail to Hastert and ask him when he's going to put his House in order.
Celebrate tonight.
Get to work tomorrow. I'm with you on making sure those two do not get anything resembling a job promotion.
There are indeed a lot of idiots voting. And keep in mind that the sainted "American people" came very close to electing John Kerry. One of these days, someone like him will be elected. I do not trust the American people with my future. Not that I trust anyone else, either, but it would be nice to trust them. And I can't. I don't see how any rational person can.
Oh that won't be hard for them. They are professionals at it.
I fart in your general direction, Mike. I explained why this is so bad. This wasn't just any election, and it isn't just any district. This was a real test case, and the public flunked.
Of course not. buchanan, Tancredo and his PAC just felt like getting involved in a Congressional election in another state, and spending weeks touting it being about immigration, on a whim...they weren't invested in the results.
I am a gloomster -- guilty as charged. But does that make me wrong?
I am NOT a third-party advocate, or even a third-party apologist. I am GOP all the way.
They are like liberals, "there are no losers just disadvantaged winners".
LOL! Good one.
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