Sanders wins in Wyoming
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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks during a campaign stop at the Pinkerton Academy Stockbridge Theatre, Monday, Feb. 8, 2016, in Derry, N.H.
CHEYENNE, Wyo. >> Wyoming Democrats handed Bernie Sanders another victory Saturday over front runner Hillary Clinton.
His Wyoming caucus win maintains the momentum that Sanders is eager to exploit as the campaign moves to much bigger states, including New York, with more delegates at stake.
Sanders won the Wisconsin primary earlier in the week. He now has won seven of the last eight caucuses and primaries although he still trails Clinton in the overall delegate count.
Wyoming had only 14 delegates at stake Saturday and they will be split between Sanders and Clinton depending on the final results.
At stake in Wyoming’s 23 county caucuses on Saturday were 14 of the state’s 18 delegates to the Democratic National Convention.
Sanders made a campaign stop in Wyoming on Tuesday, attracting about 2,000 people at a rally in Laramie. His wife, Jane, held two town hall meetings in Wyoming leading to the caucus.
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Clinton bypassed the state in favor of campaigning elsewhere, sending her husband and former President Bill Clinton to Wyoming to campaign on her behalf.
Steeped in conservative cowboy culture but proud of being the first state to grant women the right to vote, Wyoming is a heavily Republican state where more than 140,000 residents are registered with the GOP, compared with about 41,000 registered Democrats.
However, the Wyoming Democratic Party has boosted its registration by about 5,000 new members this election year, state party Executive Director Aimee Van Cleave said.
Van Cleave was encouraged by the turnout, saying it wasn’t as big as the record 8,600 who caucused statewide in 2008 but should be among the highest turnouts ever among Democrats in the state.
Wyoming has a total of 18 delegates who will cast votes for presidential candidates at the Democratic National Convention in July. Two are party leaders and two are national committee members who are allowed to vote independently for the candidate for their choice.
Van Cleave said Wyoming will have the fewest delegates among the states at the Democratic convention. Wyoming sends 29 delegates to the national Republican convention.
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I’m feeling the Bern
Hard not to chuckle every time this Marxist relic spouts off about the very socialism that has destroyed the spirits and lives of millions of its victims around the planet.
Yet, its shocking that so many young people buy his line. It’s as though 100 years of Marxist/collectivists historical disasters never took place.
What is shocking is that so many so called conservatives have adopted the bad points of collectivism while ignoring the good points.
Yet today there is not a major economy that is only capitalistic. Why is this Palani? and what do you think of our socialistic neighbor now leading the US in per capita income? Amazing what a country can do when it doesn’t waste its resources on the military or prisons.
Hillary is on the verge of a meltdown.
Is the BERN doing an O on hiLIARy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMZqS7q7voY
Anything but Hillary! Anything but Trump! Is there a silver lining for us voters?
True. But who is there if it is also anyone but Bernie too?
I would never vote for the Donald but at least he recognizes that GW was a terrible president and is willing to break the 11th commandment. Thou shall not speak ill of another republican.
Unfortunately, the corrupt Democrat Party will nominate Hilliary, just because they know better than the “dumb” electorate who are uneducated and don’t know any better.
You’re right. The younger generation that forms the core of his supporters are buying in. But what he is selling needs to be implemented by a Republican Congress first, and those in my generation don’t care if they do, as we won’t be around when the long-term consequences take effect. But, they will be — although Bernie won’t as he is older than even me.
Just as the republicans will probably end up nominating Paul Ryan because no one likes Canadian Ted and the Donald is just too honest to get the republican nomination.
If you follow what he says, it sure makes a lot of sense.
Mr–yes it does. Hillary is not dumb, so I wonder why she gave a $600,000 speech to Goldman Sachs and then preach she’s not for Wall Street. Easy to check, she’s gotten $50,000,000 in PAC money from Wall Street. Her son in law is a hedge fund manager and lives in a $10,000,000 penthouse in Manhattan with Chelsea. The Clinton Foundation has been getting foreign money while she was Sec of State and right behind her visits Bill gave his $500,000 speeches. Where’s the reporters????
And the cruzer never denounced the PAC that ran the nude pictures of Melania. He’s as dirty as they come.
It makes no sense. There’s no way we can afford his ideas much less handle our current debt, not to mention the trillions in unfunded Federal liabilities for entitlements (debt and unfunded liabilities are over 80 trillion dollars) , even with draconian taxes on every taxpayer including the middle class. Bernie constantly refers to the socialist wonderland the Scandinavian countries have established, but they’ve done so by having tax rates that are twice as high as ours. Also, he failed to mention that countries like Denmark and Sweden rank higher than the us in terms of economic freedom than the US NOW. They had to loosen the socialist reins to produce enough GDP to sustain their governments. A Sanders administration, given his class warfare hostility to business, could only do the opposite, oppress economic growth in the name of a goofy form of “fairness”–end result, a slow economy, fewer jobs, more stagnation of economic opportunity.
No, Sanders makes no sense and would be even more destructive than Obama has been.
Actually Bernie makes a lot of sense. What doesn’t make sense are the republican socialists who believe in transferring wealth from the middle class to the very rich.
There was an article about the proposed budgets of some of the candidates and Bernie had the biggest surplus while republicans just had deficits. Hillary had a small surplus I believe.
The next president has already been selected and the common folks will just have to wait to find out who it is.
Senator Sander’s call for free public college tuition is closer to what was common for us 50-somethings than what students and parents face today. In the 1980’s you could pay for a year of in state tuition with a summer job at minimum wage. Now it takes working for more than one year. At least for the state of Washington, this seems largely due to the state paying for 82% of tuition cost (in 1990) compared to 30% in 2013. http://www.uwfacultyforward.org/facts
Bernie can win all the states he wants and it won’t matter because the fix is already in. It’s rigged for Hillary. Can you say, “super delegates?”
Sanders is way too old. Nobody over 57 should be allowed to run for president. By the end of the second terms they would reach 65 and should be mandatorily retired. Why do we allow ourselves to be ruled by old people who are beyond retirement age ?
Bernie has been on the hill since 1991. Time for him to retire…along with Pelosi, Reid, McCain, Hatch,McConnell, Mikulski,Cochran, Rangel and anyone else who has been in Washington for over 15 years. They’re all just a bit too comfortable and forget they work For the people.
Experience has its place.