In an interview with Politico‘s Mike Allen, Jim Messina, the 2012 Obama campaign’s manager, revealed that his team believed that former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman, who also served as President Obama’s Ambassador to China, would likely have been a tougher general election opponent than Mitt Romney. “Um, hmm, that’s a good question,” Messina said when Allen […]

A new poll from Utah Data Points suggests that Senator Orrin Hatch will cruise easily through Tuesday’s (June 26) GOP primary, showing the 5-term Republican senator carries a sizable margin over his opponent, former state senator Dan Liljenquist.  The polling group, which is an extension of Brigham Young University, polled three different scenarios, but Hatch […]

Yesterday former GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum endorsed Dan Liljenquist over incumbent Republican Senator Orrin Hatch in the race for the U.S. Senate after a heated radio debate where Liljenquist repeatedly assailed the senior Utah senator. The low-profile debate held early yesterday morning and only broadcast via radio was the only scheduled debate before the […]

Senator Orrin Hatch is facing his first competitive Republican primary since being elected 36 years ago. Hatch has been endorsed by Mitt Romney, a political superhero in Utah due partly to his Mormon faith and his managing the Salt Lake Olympics in 2000. At a Provo town hall meeting last Saturday Hatch’s opponent Dan Liljenquist, a former […]

Mitt Romney and the Republican National Convention raised $76.8 million in May after Romney amassed the number of delegates needed to become the presumptive GOP presidential nominee. Barack Obama and the Democratic National Convention raised approximately $60 million. This is the first month that Romney has out-raised Obama since the contest began. In an e-mail […]

Senator Orrin Hatch and his GOP challenger, former Utah state senator Dan Liljenquist, will have their only debate on Friday, June 15, at 9 AM, eleven days before the June 26 GOP primary. The debate will be broadcast commercial-free on KSL Newsradio. Liljenquist has been calling for more debates against Hatch, often mocking the sitting senator […]

Complete with a cool map, the guys at Buzzfeed report nearly 90% of Obama’s 2008 donors who gave $200 or more haven’t donated in this election cycle. Whether they’ve become disenchanted with the president, the economy is keeping people tighter with their wallets, or some other reason, this only fuels the talk that Mitt Romney […]

A new website, http://www.MittRomneyisaUnicorn.com, alleges that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is secretly a mythical one-horned horse, and the organization behind the website is calling on the state of Arizona to investigate these claims. The website has gathered almost 25,000 signatures supporting a government investigation into the rising allegation that Romney is a unicorn and […]

Mitt Romney made history Tuesday evening when he won the Texas Republican presidential primary and amassed the magical number of delegates required to make himself the official nominee of the Republican party. His campaign marked the evening by releasing an official Mitt Romney iPhone app that allows supporters to take pictures of themselves and superimpose […]

Comedian Bill Maher has donated over $1,000,000 to the Obama campaign, but he has also come under fire from many–including some Democrats–for his remarks regarding Mitt Romney’s Mormonism. Recently he called Romney a “cultist,” and yesterday he did a long bit questioning whether or not Romney was a polygamist. Full video below.