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	<title>Comments on: Wyoming Don&#039;t Get No Respect</title>
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		<title>By: CWCunningham</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisweigant.com/2007/08/16/wyoming-dont-get-no-respect/#comment-502</link>
		<dc:creator>CWCunningham</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2007 18:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;ve just gotten back from Wyoming where I ran a poll to find where the sympathies of the voters might lie.

One thing stood out rather clearly, which may explain why no polling data exists nationally. Most Wyomingites don&#039;t favor first tier, or even second tier candidates.  The majority seemed to favor candidates so low in the tiers that I&#039;ll bet many have never heard of them.

In order to make sense of the data, it seemed wise to break up the population into groups by relative size. Different groups had distinctly different presidential preferences so the results of the Wyoming vote may boil down to which group has the best &quot;turn out the vote&quot; effort.

Republicans have great potential to do well in Wyoming since the largest groups tend to favor Republican candidates.

So By order of population, here&#039;s what I found:

&lt;b&gt;Sheep&lt;/b&gt;
By far the largest population in Wyoming, sheep showed no interest in any Democratic candidates. At first I thought they showed no interest in any candidates at all until I got far down on the list. Nearly 2 to 1, they seemed to favor Jack Shepard over Marc Wolin.

R Jack Shepard 42.2%
R Marc Wolin   21.0%
I Oats         36.8%

&lt;b&gt;Pickup Trucks&lt;/b&gt;
Almost as numerous as sheep, pickup trucks were the  most vocal group in the population. Heavily Republican, they seemed to be firmly committed to their chosen candidates, but perhaps a bit too nostalgic for their own good. Only one pickup truck leaned democratic, but it seems to have accidentally burst into flames while some school children were playfully testing the strength of the windows with baseball bats. For that reason, I doubted the democratic pickup truck was likely to vote in the general election.

R - George Bush                 56.2%
R - Bob Dole                    24.4%
I - My other car is a truck too  9.4%

&lt;b&gt;Cattle&lt;/b&gt;
Though not as numerous as pickups, cattle may well have a strong influence in the coming elections. They have a distinct herd mentality, and their get out the vote effort (Cows About To Take Local Elections, or C.A.T.T.L.E. drive) is already well organized. They expect very few strays on election day. Unfortunately, they were not easy to understand, but I&#039;m pretty sure they were saying Moreau.


R - Robert Edward Moreau  61.3%
I - Oats                  24.0%
D - Sherry Ann Meadows    12.4%
I - Lazy J                 2.2%
D - Albert Hamburg         0.1%

&lt;b&gt;People&lt;/b&gt;
People make up a very small minority of the Wyoming populace. Although I was only able to interview 2 of them, a husband and wife, that&#039;s actually 25% of the people in Wyoming, so I felt the sample to be quite representative.
When asked which candidate he favored for president, the husband cleared his throat, turned his head to the side and forcefully spit out the word, &quot;Pataki&quot;.
The wife was surprisingly more forceful in her answer. Apologizing for having a cold, she took a series of deeper and deeper breaths and suddenly burst out with the single word, &quot;Kucinich&quot;, to which her husband replied, &quot;Bless you&quot;, leaving me to wonder if he might be straddling the fence. I asked whether they had any feelings about the unknown, but apparently popular independent candidate, Oats. They both seemed willing to have him over for breakfast.

D - Dennis Kucinich 50.0%
R - George Pataki   50.0%

- CWCunningham</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I've just gotten back from Wyoming where I ran a poll to find where the sympathies of the voters might lie.</p>
<p>One thing stood out rather clearly, which may explain why no polling data exists nationally. Most Wyomingites don't favor first tier, or even second tier candidates.  The majority seemed to favor candidates so low in the tiers that I'll bet many have never heard of them.</p>
<p>In order to make sense of the data, it seemed wise to break up the population into groups by relative size. Different groups had distinctly different presidential preferences so the results of the Wyoming vote may boil down to which group has the best "turn out the vote" effort.</p>
<p>Republicans have great potential to do well in Wyoming since the largest groups tend to favor Republican candidates.</p>
<p>So By order of population, here's what I found:</p>
<p><b>Sheep</b><br />
By far the largest population in Wyoming, sheep showed no interest in any Democratic candidates. At first I thought they showed no interest in any candidates at all until I got far down on the list. Nearly 2 to 1, they seemed to favor Jack Shepard over Marc Wolin.</p>
<p>R Jack Shepard 42.2%<br />
R Marc Wolin   21.0%<br />
I Oats         36.8%</p>
<p><b>Pickup Trucks</b><br />
Almost as numerous as sheep, pickup trucks were the  most vocal group in the population. Heavily Republican, they seemed to be firmly committed to their chosen candidates, but perhaps a bit too nostalgic for their own good. Only one pickup truck leaned democratic, but it seems to have accidentally burst into flames while some school children were playfully testing the strength of the windows with baseball bats. For that reason, I doubted the democratic pickup truck was likely to vote in the general election.</p>
<p>R - George Bush                 56.2%<br />
R - Bob Dole                    24.4%<br />
I - My other car is a truck too  9.4%</p>
<p><b>Cattle</b><br />
Though not as numerous as pickups, cattle may well have a strong influence in the coming elections. They have a distinct herd mentality, and their get out the vote effort (Cows About To Take Local Elections, or C.A.T.T.L.E. drive) is already well organized. They expect very few strays on election day. Unfortunately, they were not easy to understand, but I'm pretty sure they were saying Moreau.</p>
<p>R - Robert Edward Moreau  61.3%<br />
I - Oats                  24.0%<br />
D - Sherry Ann Meadows    12.4%<br />
I - Lazy J                 2.2%<br />
D - Albert Hamburg         0.1%</p>
<p><b>People</b><br />
People make up a very small minority of the Wyoming populace. Although I was only able to interview 2 of them, a husband and wife, that's actually 25% of the people in Wyoming, so I felt the sample to be quite representative.<br />
When asked which candidate he favored for president, the husband cleared his throat, turned his head to the side and forcefully spit out the word, "Pataki".<br />
The wife was surprisingly more forceful in her answer. Apologizing for having a cold, she took a series of deeper and deeper breaths and suddenly burst out with the single word, "Kucinich", to which her husband replied, "Bless you", leaving me to wonder if he might be straddling the fence. I asked whether they had any feelings about the unknown, but apparently popular independent candidate, Oats. They both seemed willing to have him over for breakfast.</p>
<p>D - Dennis Kucinich 50.0%<br />
R - George Pataki   50.0%</p>
<p>- CWCunningham</p>
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		<title>By: fstanley</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisweigant.com/2007/08/16/wyoming-dont-get-no-respect/#comment-480</link>
		<dc:creator>fstanley</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2007 00:31:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What a fun idea to reward voter participation but I think the only way changes are going to come about in National elections is for the Federal government to issue some kind of executive order/fiat if that is constitutional.  

However I am afraid that the States will continue to bicker over who goes first until the cows come home!

...Stan</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What a fun idea to reward voter participation but I think the only way changes are going to come about in National elections is for the Federal government to issue some kind of executive order/fiat if that is constitutional.  </p>
<p>However I am afraid that the States will continue to bicker over who goes first until the cows come home!</p>
<p>...Stan</p>
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