Here at my first ever Democratic caucus in Wyoming. Turnout so far is very high, and support for Bernie is overwhelming. His section has had to be enlarged twice so far to accommodate the the crowd.
I didn’t caucus, but I’m glad Bernie won. I’m in Laramie, and the fact that he had a campaign office and a rally here clearly made a difference. I haven’t received any phone calls or seen any evidence of an organized Clinton campaign here. Not that our few measly delegates matter much, but still.
55.7 to 44.3 in the penultimate Democratic caucus.
Cue:
Another state win. Momentum. Seven out of the last eight contests.
538’s target to be on target to tie in pledged delegates from here given the demographics of Wyoming was +21 (60.5 to 49.5). Catching up in pledged delegates number remains averaging over 56% in all races to come. 14 pledged delegates at stake, probably will be divided 8 to 6.
krondys, are you new to the state, just old enough to start voting, vote on the GOP side before, or just declined to participate in previous caucuses?
Just have skipped the caucus process in all previous elections. If ever there was a “my vote doesn’t count” state, being a Democrat in Wyoming qualifies. I still punched the ticket on election day, though.
This year, however, it really seems like us outsiders just showing up to have our voices heard has done a great deal to steer the national conversation in a way that it never had previously. And for that, I think we have to thank Bernie as well as (I hate to credit him with anything…) Trump.
Enjoy it while you can…only one more caucus left. Momentum meets inertia.
Really not necessary Johnny.
[QUOTE=DSeid;19247614Catching up in pledged delegates number remains averaging over 56% in all races to come. 14 pledged delegates at stake, probably will be divided 8 to 6.[/QUOTE]
CNN reported that delegates would be evenly split, 7-7. Staff, true?
I guess they don’t round.
18 delegates total. 7-7 plus 4 Supers for Hillary, I believe.
This ain’t a “Yay Go Bernie” thread.
I’m shocked Sanders only won by 12%. This state is 90% white people, and it was a caucus. Both of those things should’ve helped Sanders. I guess I was expecting results like Washington, something like 75% Sanders, 25% Clinton.
Anyway, thank you krondys for the answer.
Interesting that as pledged delegate count goes it ends up 50/50.
The people that showed up in person were overwhelmingly for Sanders, but there were a lot of surrogate vote affidavits brought in for Clinton. In some places, surrogate ballots accounted for over 40% of the total votes. And Wyoming is a closed caucus: no independents, no same day registration. Looks like the Wyoming Dem Party earned the money earmarked for them by the Hillary Victory Fund donors.
Are you implying something there, other than early/absentee/“surrogate” voting bad and somehow unfair … at least if it goes against the result I want to see?
Could your posts get any more pathetic?
Where did I imply any of that? I was responding to another poster who was surprised at the results. Do you know anything at all about how GOTV works? How party machines operate? It so happens that I do. How does an explanation get inferred as sour grapes, or whatever you were trying to imply about me personally with that last bit?
Give it a fucking rest.
“Looks like the Wyoming Dem Party earned the money earmarked for them by the Hillary Victory Fund donors.” seemed to me like it was implying something.
My apologies if asking if it was offends you so much.
If people (Hillary campaign, not some “the state party cheated” stuff) managed to get a sizable portion of the vote locked up via early ballots (of whatever sort) then, yeah, they absolutely did their job. Getting votes down on paper well in advance rather than relying on primary day attendance is just smart strategy and something that Sanders failed to use throughout the campaign. If there’s a week or two week or month long early voting period then that’s how long election day is and your GOTV strategy needs to cover the whole thing, not just the final 12 hours.
If I had to guess, I’d say: Older, more conservative demographic.
It’s not “cheating” if it’s legal.
But let’s not pretend that having the state party apparatus in the bag before the primary/caucus doesn’t confer an advantage.
Obama’s team knew that going into 2008. The Clinton campaign learned from their mistakes in 2008. And the Sanders people will hopefully learn from this experience, and be ready for 2020.
Democrats are a minority in Wyoming, and like other Red states to be a Democrat means a strong tie to the state party itself and the establishment candidate. In those states Hillary has done well, so Bernie’s win in Wyoming shows some progress with the party establishment, at least at the level of it’s committed members.
Except that a) Wyoming is a caucus and b) college kids are Bernie’s primary support group, very few of whom would have any ties with the establishment.