This is kind of a shorty.
Upon getting elected, the Republican Candidate for the 4th U.S. Congressional District of Utah would (or, really, will, but what the hell) be the first Black Woman ever elected to Congress as a Republican. Ms. Mia Love should have a walk in. Two years ago, in her first ever attempt at any important political office, and riding the coattails of Utah favorite son M. Romney, she very very, very nearly defeated long term Dem/Blue Dog incumbent Congressman Jim Matheson.
But this time it ain't Jim v. Mia, and Romney is barely still on the radar screen. It's Mia Love v. totally untested, and nearly unknown Doug Owens. Yeah, his old man went to Congress as a Dem. when I was very much younger than now, and I voted for Wayne Owens at the time, but even I had never heard of the offspring Owens before he announced, but here he is apparently putting a scare into the R's.
The local newspaper today has an article about a news conference called by nearly the entire R. Utah Delegation, Sen. Hatch., Rep. Bishop. Rep. Cahffetz, and Rep. Stewart (only Sen. Mike Lee missing) to bad mouth Owens for bad mouthing Love. And her fundraising beats his by a huge multiple.
But tons of Utahns ain't voting for a Black (we had a Rep. woman in Congress some years ago "Enid Greene").
And some polls show that Mia Love ain't cutting it this time even though she has everything going for her but skin color.
How else to explain the unprecedented show of support from "The Brethern"?
I agree that Doug ain't going to win, but both Mia and the Utah Republicans already lost just because this intervention happened at all.