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Republican Primary
John Fremont (46.46%)Barry Goldwater (36.36%)Mitt Romney (18.18%)In a turn of events no one could've predicted, Goldwater actually lost Arizona and Romney did not win Utah. However, behind the scenes of what should've been a sleeper lies something entirely different. In Utah, Romney was leading for a long time in the polls, until he made some disparaging remarks about Huntsman to a crowd of conservative Mormons who thought Huntsman too liberal. Naturally, Huntsman endorsed Goldwater and with his clan managed to take a huge slew of should be Romney voters to Goldwater. Ultimately, while Romney still had a significant edge on Mormons, Goldwater managed to pick up a lot of the more business-oriented Mormons and combine that with a significant chunk of the non-Mormon population to put himself over the top. Fremont managed the rest...some in the Romney camp think he spoiled it.
Now in Arizona, Fremont managed to win a lot of the Native American, rural white, and immigrant vote. This combination managed to give him most of Arizona by comfortable margins, except for the Phoenix area, which quite obviously went to Goldwater. Many speculate that Goldwater would've won if he had campaigned a little more. And just like in Utah, the Orthodox Mormon vote ended up splitting between Goldwater and Romney. The FLDS Church however, went to Goldwater, once again thanks to disparaging remarks, different disparaging remarks, but disrapaging remarks nonetheless.
Hubert Humphrey (40%)George McGovern (33.33%)William Jennings Bryan (26.66%)After so many failed attempts early on to push his civil rights record, it seems at last in these past cycles, Humphrey has managed to strike a chord, with his victory in Arizona being another example. However, this record did not necessarily sit well with rural white farmers and ranchers who gave Bryan Apache County, who seemed more open to the concerns of all the working class. Indeed Arizona was mostly a battle between Bryan and Humphrey, with McGovern only taking a miniscule amount from Tuscon.
For the same reasons Bryan won Apache County in Arizona, he won Idaho quite easily too. Only in Boise did he have troubles with McGovern and Humphrey. McGovern did however pull a respectable second everywhere in the West and Panhandle.
In Utah, it was a two way between Humphrey and McGovern in the Northern half who were wary of Bryan's economic policies..except for the Salt Lake City and Park City, both of which went to McGovern by comfortable numbers. In the Southern half, Humphrey managed only a small enclave of immigrants since McGovern cut into that demographic a little, but the battle was almost entirely between McGovern and Bryan for the rural white vote.
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