Vouchers lose in every county in Utah

That's the way the cookie crumbles.

(Yes, I've been waiting to use that line for months.)

Glenden Brown at OneUtah:

First, the surprise inside the not-so-surprising voucher vote. I expected vouchers would win somewhere in the state. Vouchers didn't win in a single county in the state. Not one. Think about that — in the most conservative, Republican state in the nation, after spending millions of dollars of Patrick Byrne's money and piles of out-of-state money from the Amway and WalMart families, vouchers didn't carry a single county. [...]

Broadly speaking, I expected vouchers to win at least one place (I was betting on Utah County) to provide voucher supporters rhetorical cover for a 2008 Voucher Bill. This issue isn't dead — it will come back, folks. Parents for Choice in Education has invested way too much money buying out legislators to let this issue go away. If you want it gone, vote for the Democratic candidate in next year's legislative races.