[Amendment10]

"Romney being Senator is deeply troubling...."

Seventeenth Amendment issue.

[Verginius Rufus]

Romney probably could have gotten elected without the 17th amendment, if the choice had been up to the Utah legislature.

Salt Lake City is said to be about half non-Mormon nowadays, and the Salt Lake City metro area is a little over one-third of the population of the state. I don't know what the religious breakdown is of the state legislature but my guess would be a high percentage of Mormons, especially from the other two-thirds of the state.