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What Are Utahns’ Top Issue Priorities?
Utahns’ issue priorities fall into three distinct groups with Education and Jobs being most important and Gun Rights and Public Lands being least important. Note: This post is written by the POLS 6010 Graduate Research Methods class at Utah State … Continue reading
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Tagged education, energy, gun rights, immigration, jobs, polls, USU
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What Are Utahns’ Top Issue Priorities?
The Utah Priorities Survey: Top issues in 2010 and 2012
The list of top ten issues Utah voters are most concerned with was mostly filled with themes we’ve seen throughout the last few elections This is a guest post by Morgan Lyon Cotti, Senior Research Analyst at the Utah Foundation. … Continue reading
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Tagged delegates, education, immigration, partisanship, polls, tea party, utah foundation
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The Utah Priorities Survey: Top issues in 2010 and 2012
How many bills were ready on day one?
Legislators may be showing an increased willingness to run legislation that has not been subject to a thorough vetting during the interim months. The Utah legislature opened its 2012 general session today. From a quick count, it appears that 211 … Continue reading
Do Wimmer and Sandstrom agree on everything?
Wimmer and Sandstrom have voted against each other 257 times We now have two Republican members of the state legislature planning to run against each other in the newly-created 4th Congressional district. It’s been clear for months that Carl Wimmer … Continue reading
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Tagged absenteeism, cage match, grama, ideology, immigration, legislature, patrick henry caucus, rankings, representation, roll call votes
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Do Wimmer and Sandstrom agree on everything?
How will Hispanic growth affect redistricting?
To avoid a lawsuit, the redistricting committee will need to take care how the new districts divide minority populations. Utah’s Hispanic population continued to grow during the 2000s. Statewide, the Hispanic population grew by 78% (from 201,559 to 358,340) in … Continue reading
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How will Hispanic growth affect redistricting?
Redistricting backgrounders
Over the next couple weeks, we will publish several posts looking at Utah’s ongoing redistricting process. We’ll begin by looking closely at the 2010 U.S. Census results and discussing what they might mean for redistricting. We’ll also take a look … Continue reading
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Tagged commentary, counties, demographics, imbalance, immigration, jim matheson, legislature, partisanship, redistricting
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Redistricting backgrounders
How do you interpret public opinion data?
As Adam pointed out in his post earlier, the Deseret News story seems to make a conflict out of two findings that probably do not conflict. The seemingly different findings can be reconciled when a few basics about the nature … Continue reading
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How do you interpret public opinion data?
Two conflicting BYU studies on immigration?
Taking these two studies together, we find that (1) many people don’t know the LDS Church’s stance, but (2) those who do know it tend to move in the Church’s direction, at least if they are LDS Republicans. Today, the … Continue reading
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Tagged immigration, mormons, polls, utah compact, utah county, utah voter poll
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What do Utahns know about the LDS Church’s stance on immigration?
Just what do Utahns believe about the position of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on immigration? Paul Rolly in his column expresses incredulity at calls from Salt Lake County Republican convention delegates to overturn the state’s recent … Continue reading
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What do Utahns know about the LDS Church’s stance on immigration?
Over the past few weeks, we’ve posted a ridiculous amount of research about the redistricting process here in Utah. What have we learned? Here’s the Cliff Notes version. Looking back: How has Utah’s population grown since 2000? Utah’s population is … Continue reading →