Cheney is choosing this moment to run to make sure the solid conservatives we have here, ready to run for Enzi’s seat, are kept out of the race. What allows her to do this is the neo-con money that will follow her into the state’s election process. Senate races in Wyoming are low-budget affairs compared to races on the coasts. I think Cheney badly miscalculated. I think she honestly thought she could pull a Hillary and announce for Senate, scare off any primary opponents, waltz into office, and squat in a seat without having work hard to keep it. That alone is an indication she knows nothing about the folks in Wyoming.
I think she honestly thought she could pull a Hillary and announce for Senate, scare off any primary opponents, waltz into office, and squat in a seat without having work hard to keep it. That alone is an indication she knows nothing about the folks in Wyoming. Well, if that's the case, she will likely lose. First of all, she has to beat an incumbent who has been there for a hundred years. Then she has to win over an electorate who once sent the New Dealer Joe O'Mahoney and the New Frontiersman Gale McGee to serve multiple terms in the Senate.