Wyoming
Posted at 10:33am on Jan. 6, 2008 MI Morning Update: Romney Wins Wyoming - County, State Convention and State Committee Meeting Schedules
By saul anuzis
305 Days until Election Day
MORNING UPDATE:
Only two more days until they count the votes in New Hampshire. Then, all eyes will be on the Republican primary in Michigan, just one week later! It’s gonna be one interesting week…
Yesterday, Governor Mitt Romney convincingly won the Wyoming County Conventions as voters in that state selected the nation’s first delegates to the 2008 Republican National Convention. Fred Thompson came in second and Duncan Hunter third.
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Posted at 6:59pm on Jan. 5, 2008 Wyoming Caucus Early Results: Romney 6, Fred 1, Hunter 1 [Updated Final: Romney 8, Fred 3, Hunter 1]
Ron Paul 0. Nobody else campaigned there.
By Dan McLaughlin
As I expected, Mitt Romney wins today's Wyoming caucus, beating back a late effort by Fred Thompson - note that these are not final results (caucuses closed at 5pm EST):
Mitt Romney captured his first win of the Republican presidential race, gaining most of Wyoming's delegates at stake in GOP caucuses on Saturday.
The former Massachusetts governor won six of the first eight delegates to be selected. Former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson and California Rep. Duncan Hunter won one apiece, meaning no other candidate could beat Romney. Caucuses were still being held to decide all 12 delegates at stake.
The win was a boost for Romney, coming two days after his loss to Mike Huckabee in the Iowa caucuses and three days before the first-in-the- nation primary in New Hampshire. Those two states have attracted most of the political attention. Wyoming had scheduled its GOP county conventions earlier to attract candidates to the state but had only modest results.
Romney visited Wyoming in August and November and three of his five sons campaigned in the state. One son, Josh Romney, owns a ranch in southwest Wyoming.
"Number one, he campaigned here," delegate Leigh Vosler of Cheyenne said of Romney. "I think that helped while some other candidates ignored us. But also he's the right person for the job."
Hunter, Thompson and Ron Paul all stopped by the state—visits they probably wouldn't have made except for this year's early conventions—and candidates have sent Wyoming's GOP voters a flood of campaign mail. Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor, did not visit Wyoming and drew little support. Arizona Sen. John McCain and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani also did not visit and received little support.
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UPDATE: CNN reports now 8 of the 12 delegates for Romney, 2 for Fred and 1 for Hunter, with 91% reporting.
UPDATED AGAIN: Final: Romney 8, Fred 3, Hunter 1.
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Posted at 6:50pm on Jan. 4, 2008 Watching Wyoming [comments open]
By Dan McLaughlin
Jim Geraghty has a roundup of what to watch in tomorrow's Wyoming caucuses, including which candidates have visited the Vice President's home state (Fred also has Cheney's daughter Liz in his camp). Voting should be done by 3p.m. local time (5p.m. Eastern time). For the demographically-minded, Wyoming's population is 11.25% Mormon, the third highest of any state in the nation, so assuming those voters are going to mainly break for Romney and likely to be motivated and well-organized, I'd expect Romney (who has visited the state twice and sent his family to campaign there) to have an edge that may translate into a victory when combined with his turnout organization.
