The Deseret News polled delegates in Utah and determined that Sen. Bob Bennett almost certainly will not be the nominee of his party next year. It’s getting so that if you don’t support putting a sheet up between you and the opposing party like an Orthodox Jewish wedding consummation, conservative activists will excommunicate you.

It is possible that three or four prominent Republican Senate candidates–each one assumed easily on their way to their party’s nomination less than a year ago–could all be defeated by insurgent primary challengers.

The recent enactment of the health insurance reform law and the anti-individual mandate effort it stirred up could turn out to be a real liability for Colorado’s Senator Robert Bennett. If Bennett fails to win the nomination over the course of the caucusing process, he may ironically be the first victim of the anti-individual mandate push from the right.