NPR: Obama Easily Wins Wyoming Caucus

Obama Easily Wins Wyoming Caucus

Illinois Senator Barack Obama easily won the Wyoming Democratic caucuses on Saturday. Obama was the preferred candidate of 61 percent of the largest turnout for a caucus ever in the Western state. New York Sen. Hillary Clinton was the preferred candidate of 38 percent.

Obama picked up seven more delegates and Clinton five. Clinton knew she had little chance of winning Wyoming. Her campaign also holds out little hope for Tuesday's primary in Mississippi, which has a large African-American population.

The Associated Press reports that in an interview in Wyoming with KTVQ-TV, a CBS affiliate based in Billings, Mont., Obama also threw cold water on the idea of a joint ticket with Clinton, with him as the vice presidential candidate.

"Well, you know, I think it's premature. You won't see me as a vice presidential candidate -- you know, I'm running for president," Obama told the television station. "We have won twice as many states as Senator Clinton, and have a higher popular vote, and I think we can maintain our delegate count.

10:00 PM ET | 03- 8-2008 | permalink

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Oh, but wait, Wyoming is the least populous state, blah blah blah. I can already hear the Clinton spin machine gearing up for this one.

Sent by George de Man, Rome GA | 11:20 AM ET | 03-09-2008

Interesting to see if the democrat voters in Wyoming remember how Hill Clinton "blew them off". November will tell.
Best regards to Wyoming. Also, many years from now, no one will remember where Cheney came from so rest easy.

I cannot gloat as our state university (Wisconsin) let the piece of human trash do post graduate work here.

By the way, he did not learn how to hunt here.

Sent by Dave Rosen | 1:03 PM ET | 03-09-2008

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