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UT Senate: Republicans to oust Bennett
Wed, 04/28/2010 - 12:13pm | posted by Jason Pye
Sen. Bob Bennett (R-UT) isn’t likely to win re-election, according to a new Mason-Dixon poll of state convention attendees:
Facing criticism from the right, Bob Bennett is in danger of becoming the first sitting Utah senator in seven decades to lose his party’s nomination, according to a Salt Lake Tribune/Mason-Dixon poll of state GOP convention delegates.
If no candidate receives 60% of the delegate vote at the May 8 convention, the top two finishers advance to the June 22 primary. However, Bennett currently finds himself in third place. Mike Lee leads with 37%, followed by Tim Bridgewater with 20%, Bennett with 16% and Cherilyn Eagar with 11%.
“Bennett has almost no shot of getting more votes at the convention than Bridgewater and Lee,” said Mason-Dixon managing director Brad Coker.
Bennett has defined “big government Republican.” He supported the fiscal impropriety of the past, supporting bailouts and an mandate for all Americans to buy health insurance.
The Club for Growth, Red State, Dick Armey and others have targeted Bennett for defeat this year.
Thank God for the Utah Caucus system. Without it, it would be even more difficult to unseat a liberal non-Conservative like Senator Bob Bennett. That said, many of us support Tim Bridgewater as the hardest working principled Conservative in this race. We in Utah want true Conservatives who believe in the Constitution and free enterprise to represent us, and to transform-back this Country to the Founders vision. Hope and change in the right way.