There is no doubt that the GOP will hold this district, which has voted overwhelmingly for Republicans since its creation.
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Not quite so. Cannon beat a Dem incumbent, Bill Orton, who lost in '96 because of the overwhelming anger by district residents at Clinton for locking up the Grand Staircase/Escalante area on the orders of the Riady Family. Can't have any of that top grade, clean-burning coal that was all over that area, especially when the profits and competition would harm Clinton's favorite Indonesian patrons. How come Orton won (by a 58-36% margin and being massively outspent !) in 1990 in one of the most Republican seats in the nation ? Because the GOP had a brutal primary race and half the supporters of John Harmer (the former Lt Governor of California and a Bircher) refused to support Karl Snow, the winner of the primary who was backed by the outgoing incumbent. Snow, unfortunately, was also a damaged nominee even without Harmer in the picture (supported high taxes and had business links to a convicted stock manipulator).