Utah Primary Update

I just found out yesterday that this was a race that was being closely watched, because the challenger to Republican Congressman Chris Cannon (R), a man by the name of John Jacob (D), was running essentially a single-issue campaign on the immigration issue, arguing that Cannon was pro-amnesty. The Utah 3rd is a pretty conservative area, covering Provo. Nevertheless, anti-immigrant forces weren't able to get their way on this one. Cannon won the primary with nearly 56% of the vote; closer than most incumbents have to worry about, but not exactly a nail-biter.

I don't generally think you can take the results in one district and extrapolate them across the country. The one thing I would take from this is that, no matter how strong a primary challenger is, there just isn't much chance for ousting an incumbent. We'll see if that holds up in August with Joe Lieberman (D-CT). My suspicion is it will, and no matter how close it is now, Lieberman will win that primary. Maybe Ned Lamont will prove me wrong, but I don't think so.