Well, he really lucked out in not drawing a formidable challenger.
Yeah, but he's Hatch. He should have been able to breeze through without a primary against the idiots that were against him, but he didn't. He's losing his edge.
Also, he's never actually ran in a primary before (he won the nomination outright in '76), so this will be interesting.
An autobiographical book of his I read from once at Barnes & Noble says otherwise, and that he was actually the second-place candidate at the convention in 1976. I remember reading at the time that he barely avoided a primary in 2000, and his closest (only?) competitor became the running-mate of the primary challenger to Governor Mike Leavitt who didn't avoid a primary that year.
