Mitt Romney has won the Wyoming caucuses with 39 percent of the vote. Rick Santorum finished second, with 32 percent, followed by Ron Paul (21 percent), and Newt Gingrich (8 percent). However, Wyoming (like Iowa, Maine, and Minnesota) doesn’t bind its delegates, meaning that the state’s delegates (who haven’t been chosen yet) could theoretically choose to vote however they like at the convention, regardless of whether their convention votes mirror the caucus results or not.
The Romney campaign is pointing to Wyoming as a sign of growing momentum for Romney, noting that he won the last four states (Maine, Arizona, Michigan, and Wyoming) that have voted.
Waiting for the Rombots to go on and on about how this is a meaningless win, since no delegates were awarded.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI have no dog in this fight, so I wonder if someone could explain to me the logic behind these delegate-less caucuses? Who are these delegates who in fact control who gets nominated? What qualifies them more than the actual residents of a state? I ask these questions with all sincerity, as this system has never made a ton of sense to me.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseIt's pretty simple. The idea is to determine the preference of the state party electorate and to make a good-faith effort to implement that choice, while retaining some flexibility in the event that that choice is found not to be viable.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThis 'unbound' delegate argument is getting tiring. Every delegate count such as RCP or the AP shows delegates assigned to the candidate. Yes, they aren't 'bound' but the narrative is being spun that winning any of these caucus states (and there are 16 of them) is meaningless. Apparently Republicans in 16 states have no input on the nominee then.
As to Wyoming, I am seeing a 10-8-6-1 split with 4 unknown.on RCP. I heard 10-9-6-1 with 3 unknown from a different source. So that is the general ballpark. The delegate total scorecards we watch are all going up by these amounts. These votes count.
However, I would like to see the Romney faithful go on record about Washington before the vote Saturday. We see Mitt has no problem pointing to Wyoming as another win in the streak, putting it right alongside Michigan and others. We see that Mitt is flying to Washington (tomorrow I think) to campaign.
Yet, WA too is a nonbinding caucus. So will the Romney fans gives us a ruling today, before he either wins or loses, as to this race. Nobody wants to read later, after a Romney loss, the same tired 'it does not matter and Mitt did not try because he knows it does not matter' sour grapes.
Thanks in advance...
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseIt certainly would be more meaningful if the delegates were bound! What is the point of non-bound delegates? And open primaries? And giving Iowa and New Hampshire so much influence cycle after cycle? And ... I could go on!
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseWyoming was a meaningful win for Mitt Romney.
Wyoming meant as much as Iowa, Colorado, and Minnesota to Rick Santorum.
You anti-Romney zealots can't pan Mitt's wins in Maine and Wyoming while holding up Santorum's wins in Iowa, Colorado and Minnesota as somehow meaningful.
Caucuses are weird and they are arcane and they disenfranchise most voters, but as long as they weirdly still exist they count.
The only state who voted so far and whose results mean absolutely jack nothing is Missouri, (which we'll all recall Santorum "won.")
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseNobody has panned Mitt's win yesterday. We were just wondering if you Rombots would do so, since you made such a point of panning Santorums wins.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI for one never "panned" Santorum's caucus wins.
All, I did is point out that in a very low turnout caucus the candidate who is viewed as most conservative has an inherent advantage.
I did pan Santorum's meaningless and delegate free "win" in Missouri.
Missouri's "beauty contest" was a huge waste of taxpayer and Missouri GOP money!
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseYou never panned Santorum's wins, except when you did.
Gotcha.
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