Jay Evensen: Should we care about electing more Democrats in Utah?
Utah’s political lopsidedness may make this week’s arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court over political boundaries seem like a moot point here.How lopsided are we? Let me count the ways.Only 13 of 75 state House seats and five of 29 Senate seats belong to Democrats here. By themselves, Democrats are powerless to stop any bill from becoming law.In real numbers, the latest figures from the lieutenant governor’s office show there are 716,234 registered Republicans in the state,
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