McCain leads in Utah by 32 points: 64%-32% in Rasmussen

McCain’s clobbering SoetorObama in Utah: winning the state by 32 points.

Conventional wisdom is to shrug, “Who cares about Utah?”. Utah was always going to go to McCain, right?

Well, yes, but remember the whole point of SoetorObama being the Democrats’ candidate because he “could change the electoral map”?

So, Utah has a story to tell — and McCain’s solid lead there gives us insight into other states as well.

With the addition of Palin to the ticket, McCain’s also clobbering SoetorObama in Alaska, winning the 49th state by 30 points or so. McCain’s also solidly ahead in the Dakotas, Montana, and other western states SoetorObama claimed he’d win.

This whole changing the map thing isn’t working out — and Utah is a good indicator that the Republican base is indeed fired up and ready to roll out on election day.

The solid lead McCain has in Utah, to us, means Virginia and North Carolina are out of SoetorObama’s reach now too, despite what the media still insists on in terms of those being battlegrounds.

If McCain was only leading in Utah by 5 points, we’d say this electin was over, and that McCain would lose GOP strongholds.

Instead, the opposite seems to be true. SoetorObama leads in NY by only 5 points, in NJ by 3 points, and in MI and PA by just 2 points.

To us, it looks like McCain could be the one changing the electoral map this year, with traditionally blue states having a better chance of turning red instead of the other way around.

So, that much of a lead in Utah shows Kool-Aid doesn’t have much of a shelf life in the red states — certainly not the effect SoetorObama wanted or dreamed of.

Three Wickets Says:

September 15, 2008 at 7:51 pm

The web is so useful for useless stuff. Like the history of Kool-Aid. An excerpt:

“On January 1, 1931, Edwin Perkins incorporated the Kool-Aid business with a new partner, Perkins Products sales manager Fred Schmitt of Milwaukee. They relocated the company to Chicago, a better distribution point and closer to sources of supply. The Depression had started. Although banks all over the country were closing their doors and men were losing their jobs, the demand for Kool-Aid escalated. The volume of business was so large that their quarters were jammed beyond capacity.”

This was presumably before FDR arrived to save the country.