NC-PPP: McCrory still popular, Assembly not

[greenforest32]

Wait, so Herbert is the 6th most liberal GOP governor? That is hilarious, as it implies the legislature that pulls his strings (he's considered a puppet of the Utah state legislature) is more liberal than other GOP-controlled legislatures.

Utah is more Republican than it is conservative(though still conservative).  The legislature is fairly liberal in some respects.  Look at Huntsman
http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/09/utah-very-republican-but-not-as-conservative-as-it-appears/?gwh=08735C16365753BFE74274C013A47AA9
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A lot of those very very Republican states basically have wars between their conservative and moderate factions, and so it seems to me that Utah the moderates are winning more often. Same thing seems to happen in Wyoming, Idaho, and Nebraska.

I always wonder why that is. Just looking at the margins you'd think the legislatures in states like Utah and Rhode Island would be further to the right/left and yet...