But did you know...

• He's a geek. No, in a good way. Cannon loves technology so much that it "fills his heart with glee," says Rep. Rob Bishop, R-Utah. Seriously, ask him about the Singularity sometime when you have an hour to kill.

• One of his daughters is dating a Democrat who hates President Bush. Cannon came home to find a vehicle parked in his driveway with a bumper sticker that was less than complimentary to a president who has endorsed Cannon numerous times.

• A Democrat he admires: Barack Obama, not because of the presidential candidate's policies of course, but for how he came from nowhere by harnessing the power of the Internet to "prime the pump." Republicans have to figure out how to empower their base in a similar way or face extinction, he said.