[Comrade]

I was not comparing Salt Lake to Denver, guys. I was just pointing out that we're a small area compared to a lot of the larger cities and that's why our clout is probably significantly less in our state's legislature.

It's why Salt Lake, despite going 70% for Biden in 2020, barely impacts the overall state's total. We're not like Arizona and Colorado and Nevada where the city is large enough to make up a huge impact in statewide politics.

Arizona is blue today because Maricopa County has finally flipped blue. Biden won 1,040,774 votes in that county alone - or 62% of his overall vote in Arizona.

Even just looking at Salt Lake County, which is much smaller than Maricopa (4.5 million to Salt Lake County's 1.2 million), Biden won 289,906 votes (54% of Salt Lake County) and that was only 52% of his overall vote statewide. For Trump, he had 230,174 votes total in Salt Lake, which was only 27% of his statewide total.

Despite Salt Lake County likely running more liberal than Maricopa overall (Biden won Maricopa with 50% of the vote in 2020), because the county is only 35% of the state's population overall, whereas Maricopa is 62% of Arizona's population, the overall political impact Salt Lake COUNTY (let alone city) is far less than the major urban areas of our neighbors.

Just look at Clark County, Nevada. It's 73% of Nevada's population.

In many ways, Salt Lake and Boise are very similar in that regard - large urban centers but not large enough to have a statewide impact. Ada County, home to Boise, makes up just 27% of Idaho's population. So, even less than Salt Lake's.

That factors into the Salt Lake bias too, IMO.