Politico reports Liz Cheney, daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, has won the GOP primary to be the party's nominee for the state's one-and-only, soon-to-be-vacant House seat. She defeated seven other Republicans who had filed to compete for the nomination.
As they once wrote about Southern Democrats, in the pre-Nixon days, Liz getting the party's nomination is "tantamount" to being elected. Wyoming is a classic red state which rarely elects a Democrat.
We saw a very telling thing at the polls this morning. We gave our names, they looked us up, announced the party of which we are members, and based on that handed us the relevant ballot.
I noted the pile from which our Republican ballots were selected, it was perhaps 3-4 times as tall as the Democrat pile. Which indicates the relative proportion of registered Republicans and Democrats in our precinct, as I'm certain we'd been shipped ballots based on our registration proportions.
A whimsical fact - the only county in Wyoming that routinely votes Democratic is Teton County, which includes Jackson and Grand Teton National Park. The combination of lots of relatively low pay service workers, many government employees, and not a few very wealthy people who claim WY residency for tax purposes is what does the trick. The other 22 counties can normally be counted on to vote GOP. Ironically, Dick Cheney and his daughter live in Teton County.
