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Raise your hand if you knew that Saturday’s Wyoming Republican caucus county conventions^aa selected more as many delegates than as will be at stake in the upcoming New Hampshire Republican primary. Thanks to Steven for noting this, and the attendant absurdity of the invisibility of Wyoming compared to the attention lavished on New Hampshire^aa

Mitt Romney is winning almost over half the delegates (at least 6 8). Only he, Fred Thompson, Ron Paul, and Duncan Hunter have paid much attention to the state. Of those, only Paul apparently will walk away with nothing.

Hunter apparently will win his first delegate.^aa

Update: Steven reports, from the Casper Star Tribune, that Romney won 8, Thompson 3^aa, and Hunter 1.

Wyoming actually has more delegates to the national convention than New Hampshire: In addition to the 12 selected at Saturday’s county conventions, two more will be chosen at a statewide convention in May.^aa

Romney says, “The people of Wyoming took the first step towards bringing true conservative change to Washington.”

So, there you have it: W is not a “true conservative.”^aa

Wyoming Democrats (all 100 of them?) do not select their delegates until March.
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1. Most sources refer to these events as caucuses, but apparently they are actually county conventions. I think the distinction is nontrivial. I assume a county convention is a much more closed event, perhaps more like the Iowa caucuses once were: An event that would attract only party activists.aaa
2. To be fair, New Hampshire is a swing state in general elections, as is Iowa (where 40 GOP delegates were at stake). Steven notes that Wyoming actually would have had twice the delegates had it not moved its caucus so far up in what I suppose was an effort (failed) to attract more attention. New Hampshire and, especially Iowa, are almost significantly sized states when compared to Wyoming, which presumably has more delegates than New Hampshire for the same reason that it is nearly irrelevant in the bigger picture: it is so solidly Republican. Wyoming is, of course, the smallest state by population in the Union. aaa
3. I am sorry to say that I see more Hunter stickers around here–he is from San Diego County–than for any other candidate.aaa
4. Comeback kid!aaa
5. May? When the outcome will have been known for some time, and only two delegates to top off the winner? Why bother?aaa
6. Not news, I know, but it shows how far W’s star has fallen, even in a very “conservative” GOP state–the home of Big Time–that a contender for the party’s nomination would make such a statement.aaa

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