Barack Obama beat Hillary Clinton in the Wyoming Democratic caucuses today, about 61% to 39%. That sounds like it was a landslide, but the "popular vote" doesn't mean anything. All that counts is that the delegate split is 7-5 in Obama's favor.
That's right, for all the media hype and overkill over Wyoming, with Obama and the whole Clinton family descending on the state in the last three days, Obama gained two measly votes at the national convention in Denver. We don't know much it cost to fly Obama and the Clintons clear west to Wyoming, and then around the state, along with their taxpayer-paid Secret Service contingents and miscellaneous hangers-on, but how ever many dollars that was, it got Obama a two-vote gain.
Since its the Democrats we're talking about, this is to say nothing of the carbon footprint the campaigns left behind. Those jets belching all that CO2 and other pollutants, all the ground vehicles and police cars--the environmental costs are staggering. Even if you believe global warming is a hoax as I do (the evidence is building as we speak that the earth is about to enter a period of global cooling), the clean if wind-blown air of Wyoming took a big hit.
Even if you don't get sick from the carbon footprint left behind, any reasonably objective observer would get sick just from the national news media declaring that the Obama Momentum is back--based on the two votes he added to his lead. Their embarassment from last week's Saturday Night Live skits taking the national media to task for their fawning, uncritical coverage of Obama must already have worn off, based on how they overplayed the Wyoming results.
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