Power Players
In November, roughly one out of every three Utahns voted for a Democrat to represent them in the state and federal Houses of Representatives. But up at the Utah Legislature, only one-fifth of the House chamber are members of the state's minority party. And following January's swearing-in of Congressman Burgess Owens, Democrats are completely shut out of the state's federal delegation. The disparity is nothing new. For the last decade—if not longer—Democratic candidates have regularly received around a third of the state's votes while winning considerably fewer than a third of Utah's elect...