News Highlights

Utah bucks national trend, votes to stick with the GOP (Deseret Morning News).

Sen. Bob Bennett predicts that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld will resign in the wake of yesterday's election results (Salt Lake Tribune).

Quote of the Day

"This is just an extraordinary milestone event for the future of our community. The public put a lot of faith in us."

-- UTA general manager John Inglish, responding to overwhelming vote in favor of increased transit funding (Morning News). See also Tribune story.

Latest Election Results

See links to all the election coverage at the right. For the latest returns, see the KSL Radio/TV web site or the state elections Web site.

Wise Words

"Nought man could do, have I left undone."

-- A line from Robert Browning's poem "The Patriot", reflecting the way hard-working candidates feel this morning (Source: Jeffrey Lord, writing in The Spectator)

Post-Election Advice

To winners: Be gracious. Be humble. Be magnanimous. Patch things up with opponents. Start re-election efforts now. Focus on constituent service. Keep communicating with voters. Don’t take them for granted. Develop an agenda. Become known for something. Don’t try to save the world or do too much.

To losers: It’s not the end of the world. Don’t be bitter. Some awfully good people have lost elections. Your spouse, family, friends and neighbors still love you. There’s life beyond politics. If you’re anxious to run again, carefully evaluate the campaign, figure out what you did well and what you did poorly, and make plans to do much better next time.

Blog Watch

Jennifer Weaver, Tracy Medley, and Bob Aagard liveblogged election night... Jeremy Manning and David Rodeback offer post-election analyses... Recovering Technophile says of his voting experience: "I was disappointed with the number of offices in which there was no Democratic candidate. It is a sad statement when one of the major parties fails to even field a candidate. The worst section of the ballot was where I got to 'vote' for county officials. Almost without exception, at the county level there was a Republican candidate running unopposed. I don't mean to say there was no Democratic challenger, I mean no challenger at all. If it were not for the fact that we could put challengers on the ballot it would be like voting for Saddam Hussein when he was in power in Iraq -- no challenger means that he won between 95% and 100% of the vote -- it's not an election"... Reach Upward says: "One of the things that bothers me about our current system is the feedback mechanism we have for elected positions that have less public visibility. I think about elected judges, for example. How many of us have spent time in one of their courtrooms? I have served jury duty exactly three times during my life, and I have testified in court once. I have been to small claims court a couple of times. These experiences have given me a very limited view of a very few judges. How am I to know whether to re-elect a judge or not?"... Jesse Harris offers some free advice to the victorious Democrats in Congress.

Local Watch

UAC Convention

The Utah Association of Counties will be holding its annual convention Nov. 15-17 at the Dixie Center in St. George. For more info, click here.

National Politics

NCSL Tracks Legislative Results

If you’re interested in control of state legislatures across the country, the National Conference of State Legislatures is keeping track of election results. Check out the NCSL State Vote web site page.

Where’s the Time Capsule?

The University of Utah will be celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the A. Ray Olpin University Union Building on Jan. 18. At the celebration, U. officials would like to open the sealed time capsule that was embedded somewhere in the building when it was constructed in 1957. Problem is, no one can remember where the sealed box is located.

I gave a speech with my columnist compatriot Frank Pignanelli on Tuesday to the U. of U. Professor’s Emeriti Club at the Union building. At the luncheon I sat with Whit Hollis, who oversees the Student Union building. He said the best intelligence he has is that the box was embedded in the rockwork of the fireplace in what is called the Women’s Center, but he can’t find anyone who is sure, and he doesn’t really want to tear the fireplace apart rock by rock.

So, if anyone had any idea where the time capsule is, call Whit at 581-4004 or e-mail Julie Mayhew, jmayhew@union.utah.edu. Someone might want to ask Sen. Bob Bennett, who was student body president in 1957 when the Union building was constructed.

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Utah in the National News

Article: "Folks love voting in Daggett County. Even when they may not live there. Daggett County registered 947 voters for Tuesday's election — four more than the county's population in 2005, according to the most recent Census figures. Now, Attorney General Mark Shurtleff's office is looking into complaints of vote-stuffing in the county, spokesman Paul Murphy said" (Associated Press).

Group of prominent D.C. politicians and business leaders pushing a bill that would give D.C. full House voting rights and Utah a 4th congressional seat call on Utah officials to approve a redistricting map (Washington Post)

Local Headlines

Deseret Morning News

- Utah stays course

- Demo takeover will impact Utah delegation

- Vote-machine glitches cause headaches

- GOP in control of Legislature

- Republicans win in Utah County

- Transit measures approved

- City buildings now required to be 'green'

- Lee Benson: High-tech gets a 'yea' at the polls

- Davis district denies violating law

- Top Utah incumbents win easily

- Winder beats Kennard in sheriff's race

- Judge Lewis in jeopardy of losing seat

- Alpine OKs bond for schools

- Some school boards to see new faces; many races close

- GOP keeps control of Salt Lake County Council

- GOP takes 2 Davis commissioner seats

- County voters OK a pair of initiatives

- Chairman of State Board of Education defeats challenger

- Voters OK new Summit council form

- Tooele voters like vows of 'full-timers'

- Dixie GOP leaders celebrate victories

- Williams re-elected to local NAACP post

- Low jobless rate weighs down index

- Editorial: Real winners — Utah voters

- Editorial: How will Democrats govern?

Standard-Examiner

- Greiner wins at polls

- Drawing a Line

- Editorial: Helping with health insurance

St. George Spectrum

- Matheson wins re-election to House by wide margin

- Gower wins as Iron County Sheriff

- School measure passes

- Stowell wins Senate seat in District 28

- Washington County reports nearly 50 percent voter turnout

- Hatch coasts to sixth term win

- Last wins another term

- Bowman satisfied with victory

- Noel will keep seat in House

- District 74 seat remains in Clark's hands

- Urquhart re-elected as District 75 representative

- Roberts optimistic about school board lead

- Dennis Drake sweeps Commission B vote

- Eardley reelected to Commission A

- Bulloch regains county commission seat

- Belnap remains as county attorney

- Incumbents victorious in Iron County

- Beaver County votes in new sheriff

- Corry retains county school board spot

- Dodds wins fourth term on Garfield Commission

Park Record

- Westsiders sway county elections

- Last-minute mudslinging taints races

- Campaign postcard condemned

- County mulls trash bid

- Alternative energy powers Park City conference

- Editorial: Voters know what they want, and it's not dirty political tricks

Davis County Clipper

- FrontRunner notches halfway mark

- Nearly 8,000 cast ballots in early voting

- NSL wins first round in land dispute

- Tanning reignites as burning issue

- DATC makes top three on state's building project list

- Gregory J. Sanders: Electronic voting great — but needs oversight

- Todd Weiler: Electronic voting great — but needs oversight

Logan Herald Journal

- Aggies predict election outcomes

KCPW

- Real Headaches Could Come After the Polls Close

- Turnout Hits 19 Percent in SL County

- SL Co. Man Votes Twice, Poll Workers Don't Stop Him

- Inside BYU's Exit Poll

- Voters Turned Away in Utah County

Daily Herald

- Election - sales tax

- Election - constitutional amendment

- Election - American Fork irrigation bond

- Problems plague early hours of election day

- Masked man makes brief appearance at polling place

- Cedar Hills selects new council member

- Editorial: Show evidence of expenses

Salt Lake Tribune

- Tax boost for transit gets big thumbs up

- Third District Judge Leslie Lewis ousted

- Winder pulls off an upset to pin on sheriff's badge

- Gill, Miller in deadlock over DA job

- Kane County tourists spend more despite controversy

- Bennett: Rumsfeld probably will resign

- Burgess, Jolley win; Bertoch, Weeks lose spots

- Rolly: Wacky bits as elections drew near

- SLC embraces green building

- Life Elevated: Campaign did not light a fire

- Hatch makes history with sixth Senate win

- GOP still rules Legislature, but speaker sweats

- Problems abound, but voters mostly like new machines

Please submit calendar items to Daily@UtahPolicy.com

- Nov 8: Hinckley Forum "Geopolitics of Oil," 8:35 a.m. Dr. Robert D. Langenkamp, Director, National Energy-Environment Law and Policy Institute, University of Tulsa; former U.S. Department of Energy Deputy Assistant Secretary for Oil, Natural Gas & Shale Resources and deputy Assistant Secretary, Naval Petroleum and Oil Shale Reserves and Divestment.
- Nov 8: Gov. Huntsman to give welcoming remarks at Utah Association of Conservation Districts, 9:30 a.m., Park City Marriott.
- Nov 8: Midday Metro at 10 a.m. on KCPW 88.3 FM features a recap of mid-term elections with Salt Lake Tribune political columnist Paul Rolly and Kirk Jowers, director of the Hinckley Institute of Politics at the University of Utah; plus, Lt. Governor Gary Herbert on the performance of electronic voting systems across the Beehive State in yesterday’s general election. To participate, call 801-355-TALK or email midday@kcpw.org during the show.
- Nov 8: Hinckley Forum "Who Won and Why," 11 a.m. Live RadioWest with Doug Fabrizio. Kirk Jowers, Director, Hinckley Institute of Politics, Dan Jones, Professor Lecturer, Political Science Department; President Dan Jones and Associates, Dave Buhler, Adjunct Professor Political Science Department, U of U; Chair, Salt Lake City Council.
- Nov 8: Hinckley Forum "What We Give Back: A Conversation about our Responsibility to our Community," 6 p.m., Libby Gardner Hall. Guests include Rev. Trace Browning, Episcopal Chaplain, Rowland Hall Saint Marks, Ruby Chacon, local artist, Ron Yengich, criminal defense attorney, Ted Wilson, former Salt Lake City mayor, Honorable Judith S. H. Atherton, Utah Third District Court Judge, Steve Ott (moderator).
- Nov 8: Gov. Huntsman to speak at Weber State University Journalism Class, 6 p.m., Weber State University.

- See the entire calendar