A Clear Majority of Utah Voters Want the Legislature to Impeach Swallow
Update/Correction: Although the numbers posted in the topline report were released correctly yesterday, the graphic and prose for the favorability numbers posted here contained an error. The...
View Article“Convicted? No, never Convicted.”
We take the title for this post from that classic patriotic movie Stripes. In this movie, Bill Murray plays a down-on-his-luck character who decides to turn his fortunes around by joining the army....
View ArticleSenator Lee and the Shutdown
Senator Mike Lee has received considerable attention nationally, within Utah, and even among his fellow U.S. Senators for his role with Senator Ted Cruz in executing a strategy to defund the Affordable...
View ArticleSupport for gay marriage is up by 20% in Utah? Not so fast.
A year and a half ago, my colleagues posted these polling results showing that 28% of Utah voters support same-sex marriage (as of mid-2012). A few days ago, the Salt Lake Tribune published its own...
View ArticleUtah Voters Support Medicaid Expansion
This post was written by CSED Research Fellow and BYU Political Scientist Jay Goodliffe with assistance from CSED Undergraduate Research Fellow John Griffith. Inquiries about the analysis should be...
View ArticleThe Current State of the 2014 Utah Campaigns
This post was written by Chris Karpowitz and Jeremy Pope, Co-Directors of the Center for the Study of Elections and Democracy, with assistance from Alejandra Gimenez, a CSED undergraduate research...
View ArticleWhat Utah voters want from their Legislature
This post is a collaboration between Mike Barber and Adam Brown. Both are assistant professors of Political Science at Brigham Young University and affiliated scholars at the Center for the Study of...
View ArticleSenator Lee Rebounds
These are heady days for Senate Republicans. With a wave of electoral victories across the country, they have taken control from the Democrats, meaning that Republicans like Orrin Hatch will be...
View ArticlePretty much nobody likes the Zion Curtain
Utah law requires restaurants to prepare alcoholic drinks out of sight of customers, either in a separate room or behind a 7-foot tall visual barrier. The barrier is routinely derided as the “Zion...
View ArticleUtahns like Herbert and non-discrimination; they don’t like Senators and clocks
Newly released polling data shows that Utahns approval strongly of Gary Herbert’s performance as governor (74% approve, 26% disapprove) and tepidly of the Utah Legislature’s performance (56% approve,...
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