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SALT LAKE CITY Utah Republicans and Democrats are gathering Saturday for their annual conventions, but it's not the candidates competing for party nominations who are attracting attention.

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, a potential presidential candidate in 2016, is coming to Utah to appear at the Western Republican Leadership Conference for more than 100 GOP leaders from Utah and surrounding states.

On Thursday and Friday, the conference will feature panels on topics that include reaching out to minority and women voters and conclude with the United in Utah Rally that costs $10 to attend.

Utah GOP Chairman James Evans said that while much of the business at Saturday's convention at the South Towne Expo Center in Sandy will be perfunctory, he wants to remind the state's majority party "why we've been successful to date. It's because we've been united."

In an election year likely to produce few high-profile competitive races in Utah, Evans said Republicans need to stay involved, even if that means helping out-of-state candidates through volunteering at the new GOP call center in Utah County.

"We are a net exporter of conservatism and Republicanism," Evans said, noting the call center is already contacting voters in several out-of-state Senate races. "We want to remind our base as well we have a positive impact on other states."

Democrats are bringing in Jim Dean, the brother of former presidential candidate Howard Dean, to lead a Democracy for America training session. The main event at their state convention Saturday at the Salt Palace, however, is the battle for Utah Democratic Party chairman.

Former Salt Lake County Mayor Peter Corroon and former Utah County Democratic Party Chairman Richard Davis are both seeking the job vacated earlier this year by state Sen. Jim Dabakis, D-Salt Lake City, for undisclosed medical reasons.

Corroon, who lost to Gov. Gary Herbert in the 2010 governor's race, said "we need to be proud to be Democrats, but we do need to focus on the issues that resonate statewide," such as education.

Davis, a political science professor at BYU, said Democrats need to better connect with voters throughout the state.

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Pipe is stacked at the southern site of the Keystone XL pipeline on March 22, 2012, in Cushing,...

Democrats and Republicans are sparring over the impact that the Obama administration's latest delay on deciding whether to approve the Keystone XL oil sands pipeline will have on the 2014 elections.

Environmental organizations and Democrats say the delay will have little effect in tight Senate races in November, while GOP-aligned groups are arguing it underscores that pro-pipeline Democrats have little power in their party.

The focus is on a handful of Senate Democrats who support the $5.4 billion Canada-to-Texas project and are running tight races in red-leaning states. Six of those incumbents -- Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, Kay Hagan of North Carolina, Mark Pryor of Arkansas, Mark Begich of Alaska, John Walsh of Montana and Mark Warner of Virginia -- recently urged President Obama to approve the pipeline.

The White House attempted to deflect attacks from Republicans and Democrats in red-leaning states who labeled the latest delay a political move.

The State Department announced Friday that it would halt an interagency review of the pipeline while it waits for the Nebraska Supreme Court to rule on the legality of the current pipeline route. The move could put a White House decision on the pipeline beyond the November elections, sparing Obama a ruling that would either upset his environmental base or jeopardize the electoral chances of some Senate Democrats.

"I know there's a great urge and has always been to make this about politics," White House press secretary Jay Carney said Monday. "But we've see along this process, along the way here, along the route, you know, a series of actions taken in keeping with past practice where the reviews are done out of the State Department."

Democrats say Keystone XL, which has has the support of some union groups and business but faces fierce opposition from environmentalists, is low on the radar for most voters.

Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a congresswoman from Florida, said on NBC's "Meet the Press" that Keystone XL wouldn't play a significant role in those Senate races, which she said serve as "referendums on the candidates running." Similarly, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee spokesman Justin Barasky downplayed the pipeline in comments to the Washington Examiner.

"Across the country, voters are going to have a crystal clear choice between a Democrat who is fighting for women, seniors and the middle class in their states and Republicans who are pushing an anti-middle class agenda because they're bought and paid for by special interest billionaires like the Koch brothers," he said.

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