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Lee Benson: Caucuses, delegates ... huh?

mamapapaluv | 7:53 a.m. Jan. 7, 2008

Silly column.

Western Repub | 8:13 a.m. Jan. 7, 2008

Forgot Wyoming delegates in that first minute of the game. They went between Iowa and New Hampshire this past Saturday.

silly system | 9:08 a.m. Jan. 7, 2008

How come we don't get to vote on who our delegates are? The problem with the primaries is the same problem with the finals: the delegates choose our president, we don't. Even if a majority of Utahns voted for a democratic candidate, I'm positive our vote would still go to the republican candidate because the delegates are all a bunch of conservative republicans.

In other words, when it comes to the presidential election, every vote doesn't count - in fact, no votes count except for the delegates, and nobody even knows who they are.

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Anonymous | 9:41 a.m. Jan. 7, 2008

Silly System, you can vote for the Dem/Rep. delegates for party conventions if you are active in your party.

rbunner | 2:31 p.m. Jan. 7, 2008

I believe it is Wyoming which had 24 republican delegates up for grabs and was taken down to 12 for the early vote. New Hampshire gets 27 republican delegates. Romney won in Wyoming and recieved 8 delegates giving him the republican lead going into the New Hampshire primary.

Josh | 6:22 a.m. Jan. 8, 2008

Romney is leading going into the New Hampshire primary and will most likely still be leading whether he wins first of second place. New Hampshire and Wyoming were both penalized. Wyoming gets 14 delegates out of 28 and New Hampshire gets 12 out of it's 24 delegates. 8 went to Romney so he won the majority of delegates making him the winner. 2 of the delegates are not chosen until May at the Wyoming convention. That is why there were only 12 delegates to be won in Wyoming. Some states have a win the state, win all of their delegates rule and that is why it is good to have momentum and to win whole states.

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