Who's Chris Cannon? A Utah grassroots group is focusing its signature-gathering efforts on Utah County where it got the support of former Congressman Chris Cannon who signed the petition Saturday.
Religion, in Nevada? Religion has become the hot topic in Nevada's Senate race, as Mormon Harry Reid defends himself and the Obama administration against allegations by Southern Baptist Sharron Angle that they are making "government our God." Whatever that means. Says one religious scholar: "If you say that the Democratic agenda violates the First Commandment then, by inference, that agenda is sinful. There's a difference between being sinful and being wrong."
Growth industry. A Centerville-based for-profit prison company is being accused of lax security that resulted in the escape of three Arizona prisoners. Two of the escapees have been linked to a double murder in New Mexico.
No gun rack, though. Mitt Romney, worth an estimated $200 million, is being jeered for making an attempt at the common touch -- in this case driving a Chevy pickup. It doesn't help that he borrowed the Silverado from his wife. Says Gawker: Mitt Romney, who sleeps in a blue blazer, red power-tie and khaki slacks, drove his ol' pickup truck to a New Hampshire fundraiser yesterday. Will this "proletarian-car" populist approach help him, as it did Sen. Scott Brown? Unlikely.
