Seen at Libertarian Underground –
An AP article appearing on the International Herald Tribune:
It’s been overlooked in the hoopla surrounding Thursday’s Iowa caucuses and next week’s New Hampshire primary, but Wyoming Republicans will caucus Saturday and choose delegates to the national convention in September.
Candidates have paid little attention to the state, though.
Mitt Romney, Fred Thompson, Duncan Hunter and Ron Paul have passed through since September. Mike Huckabee, Rudy Giuliani and John McCain have not.
“Yes, there have been some appearances by the candidates in this state that otherwise wouldn’t have occurred this early in the process,” said Jim King, who teaches political science at the University of Wyoming. “But candidates are where the media are — in Iowa and New Hampshire.”
The same article at Fox News:
It’s been overlooked in the hoopla surrounding Thursday’s Iowa caucuses and next week’s New Hampshire primary, but Wyoming Republicans will caucus Saturday and choose delegates to the national convention in September.
Candidates have paid little attention to the state, though.
Only Mitt Romney, Fred Thompson and Duncan Hunter have passed through since September.
“Yes, there have been some appearances by the candidates in this state that otherwise wouldn’t have occurred this early in the process,” said Jim King, who teaches political science at the University of Wyoming. “But candidates are where the media are — in Iowa and New Hampshire.”
While it’s not uncommon for umpteen revisions of a story to be released on a newswire, and it’s probably not unexpected to occasionally see news sites carrying one version of a story while others carry a different edition… when you consider the inconsistency of excluding Ron Paul from Fox News’ forum Sunday (but still inviting low-polling Thompson), the omission in the story above makes it tempting to speculate on excisions of Ron Paul from wire stories as being a reflection on Fox’s fairness and balance.