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Obama hiring staff to seek votes in Utah
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| Last Edited | RBH Jun 12, 2008 02:30am |
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| News Date | Thursday, June 12, 2008 08:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Which presidential candidate is sending paid staffers to Utah in the hopes of winning one of the most Republican states in the country this November? Here's a hint — it's not the GOP's presumptive nominee, John McCain.
Believe it or not, it's Democrat Barack Obama who is telling his Utah volunteers that by July they'll have help rounding up voters throughout the state from several full-time, paid staffers.
"We really want to give the Republicans a run for their money this year, and I think we can," Nikki Norton, co-chairwoman of the volunteer group Utah for Obama, said of the campaign's planned investment in the state.
Solidly Republican Utah, of course, hasn't voted for a Democrat in a presidential election since 1964, when Lyndon Johnson was on the ballot. In the past two presidential elections, the state gave President Bush his largest majority of votes. |
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