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News roundup: Bush, Obama find similar spot in polls

Thu, 09 May 2013 07:54:32 MDT

News roundup: Bush, Obama find similar spot in polls

The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated May 9, 2013 07:54AM MDT

Polls show Bush and Obama not so far apart. Papers: Shurtleff, Swallow charged thousands in expenses to convicted fraudster. Utah voters getting more diverse, still 90% white. Happy Thursday. There are more similarities between Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama than you might think. Voters, according to polls, grade the two commanders in chief about the same, despite the fact the anti-Bush sentiment helped fuel Obama's rise. In the end, though, polls show the country remains deeply divi...

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Will: For Obama, 2014 is his number

Thu, 09 May 2013 01:01:05 MDT

Will: For Obama, 2014 is his number

By George F. Will The Washington Post

Updated May 9, 2013 01:01AM MDT

WASHINGTON -- Thirty-one months ago Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell affronted the media and other custodians of propriety by saying something common-sensical. On Oct. 23, 2010, he said: “The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.” He meant that America needed conservative change from the statist course of Obama’s presidency (the stimulus, Obamacare, etc.), therefore America needed a president who would not veto such change. B...

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Utah voters becoming more diverse — just slightly

Wed, 08 May 2013 20:35:40 MDT

Utah voters becoming more diverse — just slightly

By Lee Davidson The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated May 8, 2013 08:35PM MDT

While Utah voters are becoming slightly more diverse, still better than nine of every 10 last year were whites, according to U.S. Census estimates released Wednesday. Ironically, that comes as the Census reported that for the first time nationally, blacks voted at a higher rate than whites in 2012 — 66.2 percent compared to 64.1 percent. Utah has such a small number of black residents that Census surveys could not provide statistically reliable estimates about black voting rates here. “Blacks ha...