Wyoming primary is a total scam?

Dick Cheney is from Wyoming. Nuff said.

The delegates to the Wyoming county conventions were elected by their coworkers and neighbors and friends and others in their precincts, to represent them at the County conventions. The individual voters of Wyoming (and other states) vote for the delegates whom they trust to represent them come convention time.

Don't be so appalled at this. This is representative democracy and states' rights in action. Individual state parties can choose how they wish to select their delegates to the national convention, where all of the thousands of delegates from around the country will convene to choose the nominee of the party.

And then, remember, when you vote in November, you are not electing the president. Rather, you are voting for a slate of electors who are pledged to vote for the candidate when they cast their electoral vote. 538 electors vote for president, while the millions of votes cast only go toward the electors who will actually vote. And while the electors almost always cast votes for whom they are supposed to, occasionally they don't.

I offer this not as justification, but simply an explanation.

Wyoming has lots of Mormons, who often vote for Mitt Romney, just as many protestant evangelicals vote for Pastor Huckabee. The good news is that the delegates Wyoming sends to the national convention are a) split in half from what it would normally be (23), because they violated national party rules on when delegates could be elected; and b) are not pledged to any candidate anyway. Any of them can choose to vote for any candidate at Minneapolis!