A WIN FOR ROMNEY
Wyoming on Saturday chose the first delegates to the Republican National Convention, giving Mitt Romney a bit of bragging rights by awarding him the first of the lot. The state, never even a whistle stop in the Republican nominating process because its state conventions came so late and were overshadowed by primaries in bigger states, was selecting the first 12 of 14 delegates to the September convention in St. Paul. The final two delegates will be elected at the state convention in May.
Wyoming Republicans, who violated party rules by moving up their delegate selection from March, forfeited half of their normal 28 delegates as a result.
RIDING THE WAVE
With the momentum of his Iowa victory, Sen. Barack Obama found a crowd of 2,500 people waiting for him inside -- and outside -- a school gymnasium in Nashua.
"We started something on Thursday, but it was just the start," Obama said, speaking over waves of applause.
He continued, "What we saw during this past week was the American people rising up and saying to each other that we are on the cusp of creating a new majority, a majority that will help us win this nomination ...
"But more importantly," he said, "a majority that will help us govern in the way that we have not governed in a long time, a majority that will actually deliver on the promises of health care."
BACK TO ABORTION
Hillary Rodham Clinton criticized Obama's record on abortion rights in a mailing sent to New Hampshire voters. The mailer says that seven times during his time in the Illinois state Senate, Obama declined to take a position on abortion bills.
During his eight years in the Legislature, Obama cast a number of votes on abortion and received a 100 percent rating from the Illinois Planned Parenthood Council for his support of abortion rights, family planning services and health insurance coverage for female contraceptives. He also joined other state Democrats in voting present on some bills.
