Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has won Wyoming’s presidential caucus vote, a series of county straw polls that took place over the last three weeks. At 39 percent, Romney bested Rick Santorum (32 percent), Ron Paul (21 percent) and Newt Gingrich (8 percent). The Wyoming GOP released the results Wednesday. Like Iowa’s caucus, Wyoming’s is not binding and will in no way affect the state’s 29 delegates to the national convention, where the nominee will be formally chosen. More attention will likely be paid to Wyoming’s county conventions, held March 6-10, which will directly elect 12 delegates to the Republican National Convention. Its April state convention , which will elect another 14 delegates … none of which will be allocated (or “bound”) to any of the four remaining presidential candidate. Each will have to announce support for a candidate or “undecided.” Confused yet? Only 2,108 total votes were cast in Wyoming, the least populous U.S. state (fun fact). Nevada, the next smallest caucus to date, saw more than 30,000 GOP votes. Also like in Iowa, the precinct caucuses served another function, besides recording a presidential-preference vote: electing delegates to Wyoming’s later conventions. If Romney’s win in Wyoming is any indication, he’ll receive more backing than his rivals from Wyoming’s unbound national delegates at the GOP convention. Romney won Michigan and Arizona Tuesday. Ten states cast ballots next week, on Super Tuesday, in an increasingly important date for his three competitors.
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Mitt Romney Wins GOP Wyoming Caucus
