Wyoming Caucuses 2012: Romney Tops Statewide Straw Polls

Mitt Romney has won the 2012 Wyoming caucuses, CNN projects.

The Republican presidential candidate, and former Massachusetts governor, reportedly claimed 39 percent of the votes cast in the Cowboy State, compared to the 33 percent garnered by former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum. The other two remaining candidates in the race for the Republican nomination, Texas Rep. Ron Paul and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, won projected totals of 20 percent and 8 percent of the vote, respectively.

About 2,100 people voted in countywide caucuses held across Wyoming over the past three weeks. The results were non-binding, and none of the state's 29 delegates will be awarded at this time, though they do serve the function of electing delegates to Wyoming conventions held later this month. As ABC News put it: "If Romney’s win tonight is any indication, he’ll receive more backing than his competitors from Wyoming’s unbound national delegates at the [Republican National Convention] in Tampa, Fla., this August."

County conventions will occur from March 6 to 10, and elect 12 delegates to the RNC. A state convention in April will send another 14 delegates. "None of those delegates will be allocated (or 'bound') to any presidential candidate," ABC News reported, "though each will have to announce support for a particular candidate or 'undecided.'”

Comments

[XME]

04:32 AM on 03/02/2012

Our election system is so screwed up. First, caucuses should be eliminated. Second, the rules for every state should be exactly the same when it comes to primaries for national elections...and the rules should be the exact same for every party. Otherwise what's the point? It certainly isn't anything close to being representative a "one man, one vote".

[El Duderino 791]

05:35 PM on 03/01/2012

There was some disagreement about how to transport the Wyoming GOP delegetation to the convention. It was ultimately decided to put him on a bus.

[stevegrmich]

05:06 PM on 03/01/2012

http://www.woodtv.com/dpp/news/michigan/mi-gop-votes-to-change-delegate-award

[stevegrmich]

05:05 PM on 03/01/2012

Michigan GOP just voted 4-2 to change the Delegate allotment from Tues primary . . Romney now gets 16 and Santorum gets 14 . . . WTF . . guess they did not like the original tally . . .

[stevetrueheart]

04:48 PM on 03/01/2012

Romney wins again and adds to delegate total. He will be GOP candidate. Get behind him, and let's get Barry out of the White House.

[JWal196665]

12:17 AM on 03/02/2012

Not a prayer, we don't need an elitist as President , Romney is so far out of touch with the middle class Americans and the poor Americans, he can't even address them. His only concern is to cut more taxes for the 1% and boy does he ever benefit from that tax cut. OBAMA 2012

[Celeste5793]

03:19 PM on 03/01/2012

Well this is good news for Romney. I would rather have him for President than Santorum.

[jpegan]

03:11 PM on 03/01/2012

Hmmmmm 2100 people 120 sheep and 5 cows all voted.Hmmmmmmmmm makes you wonder if he gets elected will he be barred form taking office???I mean he is a morman and that would make him a concientious objector and that means he will refuse to defend the country.As such he can't be commander-in-chief and basicly be a leader of the armed forces Hmmmmmmmmm just trhinking out loud Hmmmmmmmmmmm

[JWal196665]

12:17 AM on 03/02/2012

Mormans do serve in the military.

[Ruth Wilks]

02:27 PM on 03/01/2012

Didn't surprise me. Wyoming has a goodly percentage of Mormons.

[jhartmn]

02:25 PM on 03/01/2012

Mitt Romney will be the next President of the United States. There are people that say that our current President would burn our Constitution. I disagree. The President cannot burn the Constitution, as he spits on it every day.

[ntr721]

02:56 PM on 03/01/2012

jhartmn, were you born this ignorant or did you grow into it?

[pmoschetta]

03:07 PM on 03/01/2012

If Mitt WANTS to be the next president of the United States, jhartmn, he'll need to garner more than his usual 39%

Imagine, he won Wyoming on 39%.......I guess the other 61% just stayed home?

[retiredfemale]

03:53 PM on 03/01/2012

he won 39% of the 2,100 people who voted. I think there are more people in the state than that.

[stevetrueheart]

04:50 PM on 03/01/2012

There's four people in the GOP race in Wyoming. Don't understand math very well, do ya?

[voaz]

02:15 PM on 03/01/2012

The GOP extends life- support of brain dead presidential candidate "leaders" and backs itself into the corner of having to introduce someone new too late in the game to make any difference. Perhaps that is the strategy. I see that the best thing they hope to do is allow Obama to win.

[potsiegb]

02:12 PM on 03/01/2012

None of these bozo republicans can beat President Obama!! THAT IS FACT. Flippy the flip flopper Romney is the republican flavor of the week...who will it be next week??? hahahaha

[stevetrueheart]

04:51 PM on 03/01/2012

Spoken like a true "Occupier".

[Ronald Bostic]

02:11 PM on 03/01/2012

How much political intellect can their be in Wyoming! And also the fix is in!

[wordshll]

02:43 PM on 03/01/2012

You need to spell, then try learning how to think for yourself. Romney is a far better man than any of the other candidates, and certainly far better than Obama, the would be King!

[pmoschetta]

03:09 PM on 03/01/2012

While whoever you focused on for their spelling, YOU wordshll need to take a look at Romney's proposed tax plan. If you're middle class, your 20% across the board gain in taxes equals, a whole $78 dollars a year
If you earn more than $1 million, you gain $60k a year in earnings and if you're part of HIS level, you earn $265k more
It will be MORE trickle down economics and we all know how well THAT has worked out over the past 31 years

[Ronald Bostic]

03:40 PM on 03/01/2012

spell?on here? there is'nt much intellect here (check spelling Einstein) judging by the commentary here.I would be very careful of whom you speak to because the morom is YOU!!Its easy to be a tough guy when you don't have to face an opponent! Just because someone disagrees with you then they must be dumb.RIGHT MORON!

[decat2]

02:07 PM on 03/01/2012

If the caucus in Wyoming are anything like the ones here in Maine,then the results are meaningless. 1,they are "nonbinding,and 2,no electorial votes are assigned,or awarded. THAT is to me a waste of time.

[wordshll]

02:50 PM on 03/01/2012

I tend to agree with you. Our elective process is ridiculous. It should be more uniform and fair to all.

[decat2]

03:03 PM on 03/01/2012

Wouldn't it be great to eliminate the "Electorial college",how many times has a candidate won in the popular vote only to loose in the electorate vote? The electorial college was put into place back when travel thme across country could take weeks,this is no longer true.Therfore this electorate body no longer serves any purpose.

[sidecarman]

01:28 PM on 03/01/2012

must be alot of fascists voting in wyoming

[wordshll]

02:51 PM on 03/01/2012

Yeah, or they all would have voted for Mitt Romney.....right?

[sidecarman]

03:20 PM on 03/01/2012

correct

[retiredfemale]

03:55 PM on 03/01/2012

I don't think so as only 2,100 bothered to vote.

[sidecarman]

04:35 PM on 03/01/2012

why is there more than 2100 people in wyoming

[launius]

01:03 PM on 03/01/2012

2100 people voted. lol

[cjgdnight]

01:31 PM on 03/01/2012

the issue is that they only have 1728! LOL

[luvinglife]

02:05 PM on 03/01/2012

And they are mostly mormon like Mr. Mitt!

[obamathegreat235]

02:08 PM on 03/01/2012

2100 people voted. lol"----I suppose that was some landslide. lol!