Reply #15: SLC is more 1/2 republican(45%) 1/4 democrat.(30%) 1/4 indepent(20%) [View All]

with the independents voting democrat most of the time. SLC is the city with the largest mormon population in the entire world and they tend to be more republican. I agree Democrats would win elections but not every election. In the last Governor race Orton(D) won the city with 52% while Orton got 48%. In the 2002 House race for the 2nd district which covers the SLC area, Democrat Matheson beat Republican Swallow 108,488 votes to 106,473 votes. Just narrowly defeating him. But in Salt Lake City he did pick up 59% of the vote but that was mostly because he was in Incumbent. But in the 2000 Senate Race, Orrin Hatch picked up(guessing) 98% of the mormon vote and carried Salt Lake City with 55% of the vote, mostly because he too was an incumbent. Now in the 2000 Presidential Election, Bush beat Gore 56% to 35% in the Salt Lake City Area, so with all of these claims, SLC is not one of the most liberal cities.