UT-Dan Jones: Obama, Romney to landslide Utah

[Tender Branson]

Obama: 53%
Clinton: 29%

Romney: 84%
McCain: 4%

But Utah Democrats don't think Romney has such a good chance of being our next president. Perhaps reading the national polls, only 27 percent of Democrats think Romney will ultimately win, while 56 percent of Democrats think that if there is a GOP president, it will be McCain.

Both Utah Democrats and Republicans think that if a Democrat wins the White House, it will be Obama, not Clinton. Half of the Democrats think Obama would be the Democratic winner, while 57 percent of Utah Republicans think that it will be the Illinois senator, if it is any Democrat.

Asked who, in either party, will ultimately become president a year from now, Utah Republicans are unsure. Thirty-six percent said they don't know or have a guess; 31 percent said it will be Romney; McCain limps in at only 9 percent.

Utah Democrats are more sure. Thirty-six percent said Obama will take the oath of office, 24 percent didn't know, and 22 percent said it will be Clinton.

In short, Clinton and McCain don't do very well in the survey, which has a margin of error of plus or minus 6.5 percent in both the Republican and Democratic columns.

http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,695249479,00.html

[Aizen]

Yep. I'm not surprised

[Downwinder]

Romney's numbers seem a little soft, actually.  Paul could actually beat McCain here next Tuesday.  It's unlikely that any sane person will give Utah's Republican primary a second thought.  This race was over before it started.  Who else would Republicans in Utah vote for?? 

Obama's numbers are better than I thought they would be, though certainly not impossible.  Hillary Clinton is not popular here, among any political ideology.

[Tender Branson]

That´s a 180°-turn since their last poll from early January, which had Clinton up 20+

The last one had only 100 or so respondents, with a MoE of 10-20% , this one has a 6.5% MoE.

[Cubby]

84-4

Wow, just wow. The word "dissent" is apparently unknown in the Book of Moroni. If Utah voters are religiously devout, whats wrong with Mike Huckabee?

[Eraserhead]

84%-4%? Sorry I know Romney is loved there but that is absurd.

[Padfoot]

Utah Democrats tend to be ski-resort town latte liberals, yes?  That's supposed to be one of Obama's stronger groups of supporters so if my assumption is correct this isn't surprising.

[Verily]

84%-4%? Sorry I know Romney is loved there but that is absurd.

He won 95% of the Mormon vote in Nevada. If that holds up in Utah, 84% is not at all out of the question.

[Eraserhead]

84%-4%? Sorry I know Romney is loved there but that is absurd.

He won 95% of the Mormon vote in Nevada. If that holds up in Utah, 84% is not at all out of the question.

I know he'll have a hauge win but I'd be shocked if McCain only received 4%.