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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Democrats are fighting hard over a Republican stronghold.
With the presidential race so tight, Democratic rivals Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton have been making a push for Utah's 23 party delegates.
Clinton sent 27-year-old daughter Chelsea to Utah last week hoping to court young voters. Obama visited last summer and his wife is scheduled to appear here Monday.
A candidate needs 2,025 delegates to secure the party's nomination. Utah is one of 15 states holding Democratic primaries on Tuesday.
Ordinarily, it would be Republicans paying the most attention to Utah. But former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, a Mormon and former head of the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics is running. Romney is expected to easily win in Utah, which has 36 GOP delegates.
According to a KSL-TV/Deseret Morning News poll published today in the Deseret Morning News, 84 percent of registered Republicans surveyed favor Romney. Of the Democrats surveyed, 53 percent favor Obama. Clinton got 29 percent in the poll, which has a margin of error of plus or minus 6.5 percentage points.
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