Status Quo Election for Utah Republicans in 2008

I sent out this E-mail the day after the election...

After reading up on all the state and local races, it looks like for all the Dems could throw at us, this ended up being a status quo election here in Utah. After spending millions of dollars trying to defeat our Republican state legislators on the vouchers issue, it appears they netted only two seats in the State House and zero in the State Senate leaving Republicans with two-thirds supermajorities in both chambers. Republicans took two of the three US House seats and won everything at the statewide level from Gov. Huntsman on down. Our only other net loss in northern Utah was Salt Lake County Council seat 6 which now gives control of the County Council back to the Dems a regrettable loss that I predicted.

We won some really hard fought races like Carl Wimmer's, Chris Buttars', Greg Hughes' and Chris Herrod's to whom I offer my most hearty congratulations! But we also lost some individual state legislative races and some great candidates though including Lavar Christensen and Rob Alexander plus Sen. Morgan and of course Speaker Curtis, but lest the Dems have much to crow about we took out their House Minority Leader and retook the Senate Minority Leader's district after he retired! I wish Lavar and Rob in particular all the best.

Ultimately, I am very grateful that we live in a solidly Republican state where even a Democrat landslide at the national level will not affect us.

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Additional comments...dated Feb 14th.

Maybe Lavar should run for Utah Republican State Chairman as Stan Lockhart is retiring. Governor Huntsman compared Utah Republicans to riding a surfboard against the Democrat electoral tidal wave. Thankfully, this Republican majority island survived the Democrat electoral onslaught enabling Utah to remain the best managed state in the country due to continuing Republican control!