Utah GOP registrations soar amid push for Dems, unaffiliated voters to switch parties

David Carlson has spent about 30 years as a proud Democrat. But this year’s GOP primary in the governor’s race has him so concerned, he was willing to shed that longtime party affiliation and register as a Republican.Living in a deep-red state that hasn’t elected a Democratic governor in four decades, he felt that joining the Republican Party was the only way for him to cast a meaningful vote against former House Speaker Greg Hughes, the gubernatorial candidate who scares him m