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Salt Lake Tribune - Cannon in line for possible promotion

WASHINGTON - Republicans will have a difficult time reclaiming the House in November’s elections with a slew of incumbents deciding to retire, resign or run for higher office.

Huh? Why did they change the headline? Why is this a duplicate story? I blogged it yesterday.
Salt Lake Tribune - Cannon growing old in D.C.

WASHINGTON - Republicans will have a difficult time reclaiming the House in November’s elections with a slew of incumbents deciding to retire, resign or run for higher office.

Here’s something else that caught my eye - the Trib always has a sidebar with the most-read and most-emailed stories, and the current list shows that lots of people are reading all about Chris Buttars, and all the letters to the editor criticising his anti-gay and anti-immigration stance, and generally giving me hope that there might be more tolerant people in Salt Lake than I previously thought possible.

Stories with the highest ratings by Tribune readers in the past five days.

Rebecca Walsh: Anti-gay patriarchy takes SLC to woodshed (522)

Walsh: Buttars is craggy face of homophobia, racism (363)

Leave us alone (215)

Mitt’s untruths (155)

Buttars must go (150)

Fear and prejudice: No excuses for Chris Buttars (139)

LDS Church asks lawmakers to weigh morality, ethics in immigration reforms (139)

Buttars and gay people (121)

Disgusting remark (114)

Butt out, senator (114)