CHANGE EVEN COMES TO UTAH-- REPUBLICAN CHRIS CANNON LOSES HIS SEAT TO HARD CORE RACIST MANIAC

In a stunning upset, a second Republican incumbent, Utah's 6-term congressman Chris Cannon, was defeated in a primary. UT-03 is one of the reddest and most socially backward districts in the country. Provo is the heart of the Mormon belt and this thoroughly brainwashed district gave Bush 77% of its vote in 2004. With a PVI of R+26 this is a place where whoever wins the Republican primary can feel safe in renting a house in the DC area immediately.

Cannon, who comes from one of those aristocratic Mormon families with 5 wives and dozens of children, is a rubber stamp dullard and extremist mostly known as one of the most fanatic Clinton impeachment loons in Congress and as a reflexive servant of big corporations-- including, and this is why he lost tonight-- their cheap labor policies predicated on lots of immigrants. He was beaten by a first time candidate, former BYU football player Jason Chaffetz. Chaffetz claimed to be even more far right than Cannon-- hard to imagine-- and he came across as even more bigoted and xenophobic than Lou Dobbs. He insists on deporting all 14 million undocumented immigrants, a popular position in one of the most racist places in America. He also vows to work for the abolition of the Department of Education, another popular notion in backwards central Utah. Chaffetz took 60% of the vote.

He and Heath Shuler of North Carolina can form their own little caucus of xenophobic ex-football players.