Roll Call offers this report (paid subscription required), which begins: “In 2004, President Bush won 72 percent of the vote in Utah, earning him five of the magical 270 electoral votes he needed to win re-election. Whoever takes Bush’s place as the GOP’s standard-bearer in 2008, it is assumed, will fare similarly in the overwhelmingly Republican Beehive State. But in that election, Utah could well be worth six electoral votes to the ’08 GOP nominee. Utah’s extra electoral vote may be the most consequential, and potentially controversial, side effect of bipartisan legislation that would provide for full House representation for the District of Columbia.”