Wyoming holds its primary election today; just why it is so late in the political season is anybody’s guess. The Democrat’s virtual convention began yesterday. I suppose that means the WY Democrats (what few exist) don’t participate at the presidential level, but choose their delegates via caucus.
Actually, there is only one WY county (out of 23) which routinely votes Democratic, and that is Teton County. As a cluster of resort communities, with sky-high property prices, it is home to relatively few people one would designate as middle class.
The wealthy are property owners, and the relatively poor service workers who staff the restaurants, bars, and boutiques are renters. People holding career-type middle class jobs (teacher, nurse, first responder, manager, bureaucrat) tend to commute from adjacent counties (in WY, ID) where they can afford to buy a home. And of course one votes where one lives, not where one works.
The DrsC do not live in Teton County. Our scenery, while excellent, is not as spectacular as theirs but our neighbors are nicer and our property taxes are lower. We live in the reliably Republican part of WY, where it is often the case that no Democrats run for state legislative spots. We’ll be voting this afternoon.
Later ... It turns out neither party uses the WY primary to decide for whom their convention delegates will vote. It was interesting to see how they'd made casting paper ballots safe. They'd bought enough cheap ballpoints so that each was used by only one voter, everybody got a new one; we fed our own ballots into the counting machine so they didn't have to handle them.
