Wyoming Senate Race

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Pretty sure this could be the sleeper race of the cycle. Democrat Tim Chestnut is getting more than 50% of the vote in his primary so far tonight and looks like he could give John Barrasso a real run for his money. Chestnut is a county commissioner in one of the state's major population centers (Albany County is the 6th largest county in the state and also home to the University of Wyoming - great source of student volunteers). Barrasso is a pretty weak candidate; he underperformed against a joke of an opponent in 2008. Plus Wyoming has been trending Democratic recently.

I'd link to Chestnut's website but he doesn't seem to have one up yet. Should have it up in the next few weeks though.

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People don't really have the Internet in Wyoming anyways. Not as much of a campaign necessity as in a lot of other places.

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The number of votes Barrasso got in the primary alone is already 5x that of the entire Democratic primary.

Lots of competitive State House primaries drove up Republican turnout tonight. Also, Democrats typically turnout in lower numbers during summer primaries as a whole.

Keep in mind Wyoming is a very cheap state to run ads in. The DSCC could make a substantial buy here without making much of a dent in their spending in other races.

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Can't tell if this is a dumb thread or a really dumb thread.

More Republican spin.

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This was intended to be a critique of several posters here, but I guess I was too subtle.

Obviously the D's have no chance at this seat. Thread closed.