Mitt Romney wins Wyoming caucus vote

Yahoo! News / ABC News ^ | March 1, 2012 | Chris Good

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Mitt Romney has won Wyoming's presidential caucus vote, a series of county straw polls that took place over the last three weeks.

With 39 percent, Romney finished ahead of Rick Santorum (32 percent), Ron Paul (21 percent) and Newt Gingrich (8 percent). The Wyoming GOP released the final results Wednesday night.

Like Iowa's presidential caucus vote, Wyoming's is not binding and will in no way affect the state's 29 delegates.

Wyoming's caucuses, however, took place over the better part of a month: Counties were allowed to hold their precinct caucuses over a wide range of time, and the first county voted on Feb. 9. If Iowa's caucuses rendered a snapshot of public sentiment in that state, Wyoming has supplied a pinhole exposure.

More media attention will likely be paid to Wyoming's county conventions, held March 6-10, which will directly elect 12 delegates to the Republican National Convention, and to its April state convention, which will elect another 14 delegates. None of those delegates will be allocated (or "bound") to any presidential candidate, though each will have to announce support for a particular candidate or "undecided."(continued)

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Wyoming is an open primary state, and the state has the second highest proportion of Mormons to the rest of the population (1/9 of Wyoming residents are Mormon).

The one thing I am learning is that we have a ton of Mormons in the United States. Goodness every state seems to have millions and millions of Mormons. Mormons in the United States clearly is larger then the Protestants (I know Catholics are behind Protestants in numbers in the US) according to this primary. I am surprised that they are not even more powerful than they are with so many of them.