Posted on 03/08/2008 3:50:56 PM PST by omega4179
Edited on 03/08/2008 7:53:12 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Barack Obama won the Wyoming caucuses Saturday, beating Hillary Clinton by double digits after a day of historic turnout in the state.
With 96 percent of precincts reporting, Obama had 59 percent to Clinton’s 40 percent. Both candidates campaigned in the state ahead of the caucuses, but the onus was on Obama to regain his momentum after Clinton disrupted his winning streak Tuesday, scoring wins in Texas, Ohio and Rhode Island.
Her victories kept her campaign alive, pushing the race forward to Wyoming, where just 12 convention delegates in 23 county caucuses were at stake. Next up is Mississippi, which holds its primary Tuesday, and then Pennsylvania, which votes April 22.
With the almost unprecedented political attention, turnout was high as thousands of Wyoming voters deluged caucus sites.
Obama got a big bump from Albany County, which contains the University Wyoming. The state Democratic Party reported 75 percent of caucus-goers there went for Obama.
Do yourself a favor and go ASAP. It is not to be missed. I've seen them all and WY is the absolute winner, hands down. There is NO more beautiful sight in America than the Grand Teton. Ginny Lake, Snake River, the desert; I would give almost anything to be able to go back there just one more time.
Wyoming is a very beautiful state. Well worth the visit.
This makes total sense. Hillary got a GOP boost last Tuesday because it was reasoned she couldn’t win anyway and the primary fight only helps our side. After her wins, people got scared that she might find a way to actually pull out the nomination and all right of left support dried up.
Yes, WY is a Red state, and the Clinton Machine didn’t campaign hard there, but there are SOME democrats there and they do get delegates and have their selection process. This doesn’t mean WY will go to Obama in November.
This is the equivalent of McCain winning in VT., Lotta good it’ll do him in Nov.
Maybe Barack is ‘vagina friendly’ like Ray Nagins.
In 2000, more people voted in Philadelphia than were registered.
“Clinton netted only a handful of delegates from the primaries, and is going to lose a good deal more than that from the caucuses... in other words, primary results aside, Clinton lost Texas.”
And my sweetheart had Fox on with Dee Dee Myers talking about what a great ticket of Hillary/Obama would be! It doesn’t matter to the DNC that Obama is ahead in votes and delegates. It is Hillary’s turn in their view, I guess. Will be fun to watch the fighting!
That's a distinction without a difference.
Yeppers, the Aspen of Wyoming. It's okay, it's sheep country.
These are Dems in Wyoming: they are a very small minority of voters. I would be very surprised to see WY go D in the general.
Yeh, Who cares? Republicans have Mc Cain
When Romney won Wyoming the DBM hardly mentioned it. One editorial, in fact, said that both he and McCain each had 3 (2?) wins at that time and put in parentheses right in the middle of a sentence ("Wyoming doesn't count".) I was stunned. The DBM did not want Romney. They now have their guy with so many areas of vulnerability. They must be so happy.
Oh yea.
That’s it—Hillary is Lost—Its all over folks. She is toast. Obama will win and be the next president. he’s just too good of a speaker, he is too much of a genius, he is too great like maybe a new JFK or Jesus. Its over. SC\scarcasm
Oh, Lordy, here it comes... going to be a circus here with them two fools stumping around our neck of the woods.
I can’t fathom what kind of person would be a Wyoming resident and delight in self-sustenenance & all that, and call themselves a democrat.
Politico reports: there were about 7,000 actual votes, per the Wyoming Democratic Party’s website.
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