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— Is it time to make way for Modern Whig Party? — St. George Spectrum Editorial
" ... If Trump becomes the standard bearer of the party, if he is the type of candidate the national Republican Party feels best represents their values and aspirations, maybe it's time Utahns find another party to support. ..."
"... Whatever happens if Trump is the GOP nominee, it might be better for Utah's GOP to start over again with a fresh perspective. If the Republican Party wants to continue to dominate Utah politics, something will have to be done. Something will have to change.
"Trump's Republican Party isn't the same Republican Party that Utahns want. Tuesday's vote made that perfectly clear. ..."
— Utah GOP plots to save Mia Love from Trump backlash — Theodoric Meyer |Politico
" ... 'We're calling it Plan T,' said James Evans, the GOP state party chairman. The party is preparing for a statewide get-out-the-vote effort to remind Republicans who don't want to back Trump that the presidential race isn't the only contest on the ballot. ..."
— Utah, stop disenfranchising voters and return to a presidential primary — Ogden Standard-Examiner Editorial
" ... Caucuses disenfranchise voters. Whether they're scheduled on weekends or weeknights, they exclude those who work, cannot find child care or cannot travel.
"And when a state refuses to underwrite its caucuses, the financial disparity between parties guarantees long lines and confusion. That, too, disenfranchises voters — either because they give up or they cannot cast secure ballots. ..."
— Be warned, GOP, that a brokered convention could leave a broken party — Robert A. Goldberg | For The Salt Lake Tribune
"Recently, establishment Republicans raised the option of a brokered national convention as a deterrent to the Donald Trump insurgency. As the scenario goes, Trump's delegate strength would be whittled away after repeated ballots, allowing a compromise candidate to emerge for a November showdown with the Democrats.
"Particularly valuable for gauging the "Never Trump" effort was the "Stop Goldwater" campaign waged during the 1964 Republican Party nomination process. It proves a cautionary tale for party elites. ..."
— The State of the Utah Electorate — Doug Fabrizio | Radio West | KUER
"According to a recent poll, if the Republicans nominated Donald Trump as president, the unthinkable could happen. Utah could vote for a Democratic president for the first time in decades. So what is it about the business tycoon that rubs reliably-Republican Utahns the wrong way? Why does Bernie Sanders enjoy such popularity here? And has Mitt Romney actually stemmed Trump's tide? Monday, a panel of guests joins us to examine the state of the local electorate in the lead up to a pivotal election. ..."
— The chaos of Utah's caucuses — Provo Daily Herald
" ... We were exasperated. Truly. In our various and individual experiences across Utah County, a mutual consensus was the caucus meetings from Alpine to Provo were frustrating, antiquated, disorganized and generally lacking invested interest from voters. We will explain. ..."
— The caucus results suggest that the general election dynamics in Utah could be different this time around — Deseret News Editorial
"Utah's caucuses boasted record turnout on Tuesday, due at least partly to heightened interest in the presidential election. Unfortunately, the system was inadequate to handle that many people, and many locations complained of ballot shortages and overcrowding, and those who tried to vote online in the Republican primary were often stymied by technical glitches. Utah Democratic Party Chairman Peter Corroon observed that 'political parties with four staff and a couple of hundred volunteers can't handle the number of voters that turn out.' This referred to the fact that the State Legislature decided not to help fund either a state primary or the caucus process this year.
"Corroon is correct. ..." — Arizona's voting rights fire bell — E.J. Dionne | The Washington Post
"It's bad enough that an outrage was perpetrated last week against the voters of Maricopa County, Arizona. It would be far worse if we ignore the warning that the disenfranchisement of thousands of its citizens offers our nation. In November, one of the most contentious campaigns in our history could end in a catastrophe for our democracy.
"A major culprit would be the United States Supreme Court, and specifically the conservative majority that gutted the Voting Rights Act in 2013. ..."