LET THE MACHINE SPEAK: Hatch Brings The Troops To Utah Caucuses.

After 36 years, Hatch was facing perhaps his gravest political threat, but spent more than a year fighting back, mobilizing supporters to attend the caucuses and by early and anecdotal reports, appears to have fared well. . . .

Slightly more than half of the crowd supported Hatch — and rules required all delegates to eventually win by a majority through numerous rounds of elimination. Hatch supporters used their slight majority to methodically eliminate pro-Liljenquist candidates, as Liljenquist merely shook his head.

Liljenquist even lost the last available delegate on a 69-68 vote.

Nobody said it would be easy.