The residents of each State should be the ones who determine who should represent them in Washington. By taking the “all races are national” mentality, you’ve admitted you’ve already lost.

I’m simply not interested in trading one set of tyrants for another.

I have made over 400 phone calls to people that have voted republican in primaries the last two years. Admittedly about 1 in 3 of these calls did I actually get some one to talk to.

Of all those calls I found 3 people who were willing to volunteer and another that was already volunteering.

I dont’ want to throw cold water on the sentiments in the post. I agree and it could very well have been the GOTV efforts of Freedomworks and others that pushed Lee over the top. 51/49 is awfully close.

I am just finding it frustrating. I am working with local GOP and I also participate in my local tea party. If anyone has some suggestions on other groups let me know.

This is precisely what Mike pushed Mike Lee over the top. He had volunteers, such as myself, across the state, working hard every day to help him win the primary. We made phone calls. We handed out literature. We participated in honk ‘n waves. We wore our shirts and buttons everywhere we went. We answered questions of anyone who stopped us. We blogged, Facebooked and Tweeted. We responded to every blog and news article written about Mike Lee, offering our viewpoints, correct misconceptions and outright lies and more.

Could we have used more volunteers? Absolutely. Could we have used more Utahns caring yesterday and getting off their butts and voting? Absolutely. Nonetheless, we all worked very hard to get Mike Lee a win, and none of us worked harder than Mike Lee himself.

We had a victory yesterday and I am going to take a day or so enjoying the fact that we won. Then backs to work and hitting the ground running. Personally, I hope Mike and Sharon are getting some sleep. They deserve it!

We need more volunteers–no doubt about it. You can never have enough.

Was Tuesday a National election. No it was 4/5 local elections with nationalized issues. Millions of people across the nation has come to the conclusion that we are on the wrong course.

51-49 in Utah and the local people who these folks best made the decision.

I think the closeness of the race shows that a lot of conservatives saw a lot of good in both candidates. There were no demon sheep in Utah.

There were people on the Lee-in my opinion-who contorted the Bridgewater record but in the end it came down to who turned out. The Lee forces in the Southern part of Utah-especially Washington county which had a big turnout-won the election. Kudos to them. This race was not Right and RINO. Ultimately it came down to which very conservative man would win. Oh plus both candidates were from Utah county and Lee won by 2400 votes there 19200-16800. The locals who see these folks at church and at the mall voted narrowly for Lee and that made a difference.

So GOTV and friends/neighbors won this race.

This is great news! Now watch for conservative Christine O’Donnell to send ultra liberal Republican Mike Castle packing on September, 14 after a forty year career of massively growing government. Also look for his well paid flunkies, glued to their search engines, to chime in on this. “Castle is the best we can do in Delaware.” “Christine is a weak candidate.” But the conservative tide continues to role in and liberal career politicians of both parties are very vulnerable.

You got to be kidding. What surpreme court Justice did she clerk for?

I think her Resume is a little thin.

She is no Nikki Haley who has been an absolute proven conservative nor is she a Tim Scott or a Mike Lee.

I think the Fox commentor in Miss got 10% this month and Ms. O. might have to run hard to get that.

BS statement all things considered,

“Gresham Barrett embarrassed himself by even staying in the race, but I suppose it was even more entertaining that way.”

He stayed in and fought for what he believed in win or lose. Funny the same thing that you said was said about Chuck in CA. Was Chuck right for staying in the race all the way to the end when winning was not possible or does the same standard apply and he embarrassed himself by remaining in the fight? I think not and it does not apply to Barrett either. Nikki won, good for her, hope she is able to do great things for the state and country, but you are dead wrong that someone should give up when it looks bad just for your pleasure or approval. If everyone did that we would have very few good choices left to vote for and Angle is one example of a hang in who has turned it around!

Barrett totally embarassed himself, both by calling for a runoff when he was starting out at 22 vs his opponent’s 49, something that made no sense based on the numbers alone, and then by campaigning against his opponent by basicly saying vote for me Im the real Christian. Im a Christian myself, and I didn’t like that at all, I dare say most folks didn’t, because Nikki IS a Christian. If he had done the right thing, and the logical thing, by not calling for a runoff, he would’ve had the good will of Republicans everywhere, I certainly would’ve been very much inclined to support him in his next quest for higher office. Instead he alienated much of the party, and its highly unlikely he will ever be able to win a statewide race now, certainly I wouldn’t vote for him for dog catcher after this.

I also agree compeltely with an earlier comment about the Delaware Senate race, Christine O’Donnell is going to be our next Nikki Haley, she’s running against a liberal democrat with an R next to his name, if that guy wins the primary its going to be liberal vs liberal in November and we’ll lose either way. Hopefully Christine will defeat the liberal in the GOP Primary, then the other liberal, the one with the D next to his name, in November!