CASPER, Wyo., Jan. 5, 2008
Romney Takes Largest Cut Of Wyo. Delegates
Former Mass. Gov. Wins 8 Of 12 Delegates In State Largely Ignored By Candidates
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Former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney, seen in front of a Wyoming state flag in Cheyenne in this November 2007 file photo, is one of the GOP hopefuls who have ignored the state in recent weeks, despite the party's selection of delegates just days after the Iowa caucuses. (AP/B. Quester, Wyo. Tribune-Eagle)
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"This is just the beginning," he declared.
The former Massachusetts governor won eight delegates, former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson got three and California Rep. Duncan Hunter won one.
These are the first delegates actually elected to the 2008 Republican National Convention (the Iowa GOP delegates won’t be named until the state party's convention in June).
The Wyoming caucuses are conventions of precinct representatives, so the actual number voting is very small - on one county unit, there were just 31 people.
"The people of Wyoming took the first step towards bringing true conservative change to Washington," Romney said in a statement. "I am honored to have won many of the first delegates awarded this primary season. As the Republican nominee, I promise to fight to seat all of Wyoming's delegates at the national convention."
The victory was a welcome development 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.
"I think we're encouraged that the voters in Wyoming value that my dad had spent time here," Josh Romney said.
The traditional leadoff nomination contests in Iowa and New Hampshire have dominated the attention of both candidates and the national media in recent months, and no candidates had visited Wyoming in the four weeks leading up to the caucuses. Hunter was the last to visit the state on Dec. 4.
Tom Sansonetti, the county convention organizer, maintained Saturday that moving the state's caucuses ahead was the right thing to do.
"The ultimate goal is not how many times we appear on Katie Couric," Sansonetti said. "The ultimate goal was to have attention paid to rank-and-file Republicans by national candidates."
In addition, he said more Wyoming Republicans have become involved in the process.
Wyoming Republicans also paid a price for jumping ahead. The Republican National Committee has slashed half of Wyoming's 28 national convention delegates. National party leaders similarly penalized Florida, Michigan, New Hampshire and South Carolina for moving up the dates of their nomination contests.
RNC rules require the punishment for states that hold their nominating contests earlier than Feb. 5. Iowa, which held caucuses on Thursday, will not be penalized because, technically, the caucuses are not binding on convention delegates. Nevada, which plans to hold its caucuses on Jan. 19, will not be penalized for the same reason.
Besides the 12 delegates chosen at Saturday's county conventions in Wyoming, two delegates to be chosen at a statewide convention in May will also be sent to the national convention in Minneapolis.
Wyoming's Democratic primary will be held on March 9.
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"Do they have elections in Wyoming?
Last time I was in Wyoming, they were still using the telegraph. Have they gotten electricity and telephones?"
Posted by tuckerndfw
Funny guy.
Wyoming was the first state to allow women to vote, hence the Equality State.
And we''ve had color TV for 5 years now.
"Do they have elections in Wyoming?
Last time I was in Wyoming, they were still using the telegraph. Have they gotten electricity and telephones?"
Posted by tuckerndfw
Funny guy.
Wyoming was the first state to allow women to vote, hence the Equality State.
And we''ve had color TV for 5 years now.
......Wyoming is at this moment conducting their own state primary today with 28 delegates at stake.
Currently Mitt Romney is winning with Hunter coming in second and Fred Thompson coming in third.
Mitt Romney is the front runner despite the "poisonous LIES" coming from the most corrupt institution in America, our wolfpack press. "They" are trying to say that Mitt''s on the ropes because he came in SECOND IN IOWA!!...........PLEASE!!.......
And now Mitt''s going to win Wyoming with their 28 delegates.
Mitt is the front runner and the guy who is going to win the GOP nomination and go on to be the 45th President of the USA because he is Mr. Economy, Mr. Healthcare, Mr. Fixer.
America we need to elect a "FIXER" someone that knows how to create "wealth" like Mitt has for himself and his family. I''m ready to hire today anyone that KNOWS how to create wealth so can do the same in the capacity of President of the USA...............GO MITT!.
Mitt supporters don''t like the lies and proganda coming from the corrupt wolfpack press get you down!!!!!!!
Wyoming, the state that thinks it invented snow.
posted by perception5
America supporters, don''t let the lies and propaganda coming from the corrupt Bush administration get you down!!!!!!!
Right next to Utah...
Parts of Wyoming are from the mythical proposed Mormon State of Deseret and part of the original territory of Utah- Get it?
The State of Deseret was a provisional state of the United States, proposed in 1849 by Mormon settlers in Salt Lake City. The provisional state existed for slightly over two years and was never recognized by the United States government.
Right next to Utah...
Parts of Wyoming are from the mythical proposed Mormon State of Deseret and part of the original territory of Utah- Get it?
The State of Deseret was a provisional state of the United States, proposed in 1849 by Mormon settlers in Salt Lake City. The provisional state existed for slightly over two years and was never recognized by the United States government.
www.jihadwatch.org
tuckerndfw
I guess you better not vote.
Romney gained no personal tax benefit from the legal operations in Bermuda and the Cayman Islands. But aides to the Republican presidential hopeful and former colleagues acknowledged that the tax-friendly jurisdictions helped attract billions of additional investment dollars to Romney''s former company, Bain Capital, and thus boosted profits for Romney and his partners.
Romney has based his White House bid, in part, on the skills he learned as co-founder and chief of Bain Capital, one of the nation''s most successful private equity groups. His campaign cites his record while governor of Massachusetts of closing state tax loopholes; his involvement with foreign tax havens had not previously come to light."
plus the dude throws snowballs like a girl:
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/01/05/romney-wins-wyoming-caucus/
Posted by robertkjjj at 04:39 PM : Jan 05, 2008
Robert, you make a really good study in irony, or should we just call it good-old-fashioned hypocrisy? Your diatribe was 100% ad hominem, and yet, that''s why you purport to be so irrationally incensed at liberals. Speaking of "thinking out an argument," you might want to do that next time, so you don''t end up planting your foot squarely into your mouth again.
My fellow Americans the corrupt folks at CBS have tremdous "HATRED" for Mitt Romney and they along with 90% of the rest of the wolfpack are working together to de-rail Mitt before he can win the GOP nomination. THIS IS THE FACTS AND THE TRUTH.
GO MITT !!!!!
That makes a Silver in Iowa and now a Gold in Wyoming.........great.
Mitt leads all others in the GOP delegate count. Mitt is the most qualified candidate running from either party in 2008, he knows how to "FIX" Washington DC
About 120,000 residents took part in the GOP caucus this week, a 36 percent increase over the last contested GOP event, in 2000."
this is a 2:1 turnout ratio of dems to repubs- many have suggested this includes many former repubs who have gone democrat. this is something the GOP is worried about bigtime.
the GOP is digging its own grave by pushing candidates like romney and mccain and giulliani (to a lesser degree fred who i dont think anyone really understands what he is doing) with the same old establishment message or even worse. the public showed thier dismay for a party failing to admit to huge errors, an inability to hold themselves accountable which turns into distrust, plain old arrogance, and a new way out. this is likely the reason hillary did so poorly also.
interesting that the big issues of the day are the war in iraq and the economy%u2026 and yet the candidate who receives more donations from active duty servicemen and the candidate who fights hardest for saving the dollar from crashing and saving us from over taxation is being excluded from the jan 6th fox news debate.
http://www.ronpaul2008.com/veterans/
Posted by perception5 at 05:28 PM : Jan 05, 2008
My dear, they aren''t the only ones. Rational americans also hate Mitt with a passion and cannot wait for this country to wake up and stop voting for candidates based on how much in love they say they are with god and how often they purport to speak with him on their direct line to heaven. I wish the religious extremist would stay home on election day and just pray extra hard for Jesus to return that day. Remember, prayer works!!!
Posted by jeff-fla at 06:48 PM : Jan 05, 2008
Huh, that is interesting, because Mitt has let everyone know just how integral religion is to freedom. But he has ignored the entire history of civilization that clearly illustrates that religion does just fine without freedom.
I think you are really upset that the Huckster has called Rush Limbaugh part of the DC chattering class and has made mention of a shadow economy for the elite.
I an really in favor of Edwards. I''m hoping that Mitt and Huckabee split the ticket to a point the Edwards wins.
Mitt wins Y.O. Ming. Wow.
Guess the women vote put him over the top.
Wyoming, the state where women grow hair on their chest.
As they say:
"As goes Wyoming so go the buffalo.
Making his first bid for elected office, Romney boasted that he had helped create more than 10,000 jobs at companies he had retooled. But Kennedy painted him as someone "who puts profits over people," and an ugly labor dispute soon helped sink Romney''s campaign.
Bain Capital had bought a controlling interest in a paper products company called Ampad for $5 million in 1992. Two years later, after Ampad bought a factory in Marion, Ind., the new management team dismissed about 200 workers, slashed salaries and benefits, and hired strikebreakers after the union called a walkout.
"We were just fired," Randy Johnson, a former worker and union officer at the Marion plant, recalled in a telephone interview. "They came in and said, ''You''re all fired. If you want to work for us, here''s an application.'' We had insurance until the end of the week. That was it. It was brutal."
In October 1994, Johnson and other striking workers drove to Massachusetts to protest Romney''s Senate campaign. "We chased him everywhere," Johnson recalled. "He took good jobs with benefits, and created low-wage, part-time, no-benefit jobs. That''s what he was creating with his investments."
Huckabee did not do well with non-evangelicals in Iowa. Romney got 3 votes for every 1 vote Huckabee got from non-evangelcals in Iowa. That doesn''t bode well for a Huckabee in a general election.
Posted by denn034
Dennyboy, you need to buy a new atlas if yours shows Wyoming above Utah.
You must have went to a publik skool.
Posted by Rafterman1 at 01:18 PM : Jan 05, 2008"
There are NO "insignificant" states!!!! How dare you belittle any of MY fellow countrymen!
Re: "Romney Takes Largest Cut Of Wyo. Delegates"
I''ll bet that those of you who ridiculed Mr. Romney''s magic underwear, and his Lord, Nimrod, are feeling pretty silly now...
Wyoming, I WOULD WIN TOO....Nothing to be too proud of.
Posted by denn034
Dennyboy, you need to buy a new atlas if yours shows Wyoming above Utah.
You must have went to a publik skool.
Posted by hawksprings at 09:02 PM : Jan 05, 2008
It is just above Utah on the evolutionary chain. Utah is pretty much ***-backwards rockbottom tadpole-like, and Wyoming is barely crawling out of the water.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! GET RID OF THESE ILLEGAL ALIEN INVADERS, NOW!
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by moxford0
January 6, 2008 5:08 PM PST
- ***** Romney-Let him be president of Wyoming if the people there aren''t any brighter than that.
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