Obligatory post on Wyoming

It's a small red state and it's a caucus, so I know it doesn't "matter," but the little people there are holding an event on Saturday which seems to have escaped not only the attention of this blog, but also mainstream news which is obsessed with giving Clinton a platform to build up the Republicans and hammering on somebody nobody knew until yesterday for calling Clinton a "monster" (the horror of it - maybe Clinton should sue for intentional infliction of emotional distress).

Anyway, these little people in a little red state which happens to have been the first to recognize the right of women to vote - they're holding a caucus tomorrow.  As unfair as it may seem to Clinton, they're going to choose some delegates.  Obviously they didn't get the memo from Mark Penn, but they're actually quite excited about it.

From MSNBC:

Some Democrats here say they have never seen a political mood swing so overwhelming or so fast -- from the status quo of irrelevance to full kiss-kiss campaign embrace, in nothing flat.

"I have never had a period of compressed political intensity like these last 48 hours," Kathleen M. Karpan, a longtime Democratic activist and former Wyoming secretary of state, said Thursday. Ms. Karpan, who supports Mrs. Clinton, of New York, took a week off from her law practice to help with last minute details before Saturday.

Around the state, caucus locations are being moved from living rooms to meeting halls. Here in Laramie County, the most populous, Democrats reserved the Cheyenne Civic Center, which will seat up to 1,500 people for an event that in the past has drawn maybe 250.

"People are excited that it would actually matter," said Margaret Whited, the party chairwoman in Park County in the state's northwest corner. Ms. Whited said all the energy and attention swirling around the caucuses could help in the fight against her biggest enemy: apathy among Democrats who think their voices do not count.

If five times the regular number of 20 or so show up to caucus in Park County, Ms. Whited said, it will send a message that Democrats in her part of Wyoming should not be treated as aberrational freaks of nature.

"It will let people see," she said, "that we are just regular human beings."

No chance of that Ms. Whited.  You're going to forfeit that consideration when you overwhelmingly appoint delegates to support a "take-him-at-his-word-Christian," who lies to Canada and Ohio voters (whichever accusation is most convenient at the moment), who forces his surrogates to say mean things about Hillary, who bought property next to somebody accused of a crime, and whose only relevant experience is a speech.  What a bunch of moronic saps out in those rectangular states!



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I lived in Wyomng for twenty years.

My family is all getting out to caucus for Obama. They're bringing their friends, too.

It's Obama fever.


Bill Foster would agree, Barack Obama has coat tails.
by Walt Starr on Fri Mar 07, 2008 at 04:08:20 PM EST

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 Just saw BO on tv. He has changed the people sitting behind him. Instead of young shiny faces, we now have senior citizens. I swear there was more vegetables than a tossed salad.
Wisdom Is The Reward For Listening Over A Lifetime
by gunner on Fri Mar 07, 2008 at 04:12:28 PM EST
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wow.  freaks....


by easyE on Fri Mar 07, 2008 at 04:11:57 PM EST

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Why are they bothering?  What's wrong with them?


by Drummond on Fri Mar 07, 2008 at 04:13:05 PM EST

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"Somebody nobody knew until yesterday"?  If you're an Obama supporter who had no idea who Samantha Power was until yesterday, I'm not sure you ought to be advocating for him on the blogs.  She is (was, I guess) one of the most notable advisors on the whole campaign.


"Another problem we have...is that in election years we behave somewhat as primitive peoples do at the time of the full moon." --Harry Truman
by Steve M on Fri Mar 07, 2008 at 04:20:36 PM EST

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I lived in Wyoming for 22 years, went to college there, was born there, campaigned for democrats year after year there. What are these silly people thinking?

Until this year campaigning in Wyoming meant getting off a plane in Cheyenne or Jackson, and then turning around and getting right back on it.

It may be among the reddest states, but I promise you, there are still a couple masochists registering and running as Ds. God bless 'em!

Of course they don't count according to Mark Penn, unless Hillbilly wins, then they not only count, it was his brilliance that brought the win.


Demeric
by Demeric on Fri Mar 07, 2008 at 04:26:54 PM EST

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Obama's famous cousin is from Wyoming.


by nkpolitics on Fri Mar 07, 2008 at 04:59:06 PM EST


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