Wonderful Wyoming

Wyoming is a great state. Being the northern neighbor of my native Colorado, I've been there a lot, and go there several times a year for many different reasons. The southern end is windswept prairie largely, some less charitably would say bleak. The northern end, particularly the Grand Tetons and Jackson Hole, the mountainous areas around Sheridan and Buffalo and down to the center of the near Lander, are much more picturesque

Possessing two U.S. Senators and one U.S. Representative, and three electoral votes, it is largely overlooked in national politics, and would have no fame at all except that it is the home of Vice President Dick Cheney. It is mostly a Republican state, and those few Democrats elected to office, such as the current Governor, are very conservative. He is uncommitted in the presidential race.

But, lo and behold, it does get 12 precious delegates to the Democratic National Convention in Denver next August, and in a nearly deadlocked presidential campaign between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, Wyoming has suddenly taken on the importance of New York or California. Needless to say, the politicians have descended on the state like flies to honey.

Bill Clinton was there yesterday, as was Chelsey later in the day. Today, both Obama and Hillary have been in the state. Former Gov. Mike Sullivan, a major Democratic power in the state, and his organization are backing Hillary. Obama wisely had his rally at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, which is where Bill and Chelsey went yesterday. While knowing little of Wyoming Democratic politics, I would assume Hillary would have something of a corner on the market.

Tomorrow are the caucuses to select the 12 Democratic delegates. I would beseech all good Democratic Wyomingites--both of you--to vote for Hillary and keep the suspense going all the way to Denver. That's what we good Republican backers of John McCain want from you.