Wyoming GOP Caucuses

Wyoming held its GOP caucus on January 5, 2008.

The Wyoming Republican Party has 14 delegates to award to the GOP candidates. 12 of these are "binded" by the caucus today while 2 will be selected in a county convention in May. Wyoming originally had 28 delegates but the RNC stripped half of its delegates as a penalty for holding the caucus before February 5.

The caucus vote occurred like this:

Wyoming has 23 counties. 11 counties selected delegates. 11 counties selected alternate delegates in case any of the original delegates are deemed void for any reason. The 1 remaining county selected one delegate and one alternate delegate. Only the 12 counties that chose original delegates will send the delegates to the National Convention.

Final Results:

Delegate vote:

Mitt Romney: 8 original (13 total) ****WINNER****
Fred Thompson: 3 original (4 total)
Duncan Hunter: 1 original (2 total)

Overall vote:

Mitt Romney: 67%
Fred Thompson: 25%
Duncan Hunter: 8%

Special Notes: 4 counties who are only selecting alternate delegates issued "Uncommitted" positions. If these alternate delegates are given an opportunity to go to the National Convention, they can choose whichever candidate they wish.

The four counties and their delegates are:

Johnson County - Bob Snowden
Natrona County - Kyle True
Washakie County - Jim Gillman
Weston County - Donna Bunch

Not surprising I guess given that Wyoming is a strongly red state. But given their low number of delegates and only 3 electoral points they're completely insignificant.

Any word on what the turnout was?

No word on the voter turnout.

The New Hampshire GOP primary has the same number of delegates (12) to allocate to the Republican presidential candidates. Its just the publicity surrounding New Hampshire is causing candidates to focus on New Hampshire. Note that the RNC has also stripped 50% of New Hampshire's Republican delegates. Initially, the New Hampshire GOP had 24 delegates to allocate to the presidential candidates.

The DNC, however, has elected not to strip the New Hampshire Democratic party of its delegates. The Democratic party has 30 delegates to allocate to the Democratic presidential candidates.

Wyoming caucuses are largely ignored, I wonder why?

^I wonder....

^^^ LMAO..