CODY, Wyo. — Imagine a place where no presidential candidates visited, local television was nearly free of political ads, and yard signs — if screaming winds did not rip them out — were stuck in the ground only shortly before Election Day.
That place is Cody, a mountain-ringed city of 9,600 people bypassed by a bitter presidential campaign that cost $2.6 billion and blanketed the country’s battleground states with a months-long media barrage.
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Has any national candidte ever stumped in Hawaii (Obama's vacationing there notwithstanding)? It's never mentioned. It's hardly even shown on blue-state/red-state maps. How about Alaska? Do candidates even air TV commercials in these outlands?
Whaat about Guam, or the rest of the "territories" where American citizens live? Ah, it stays quiet there during election season . . . . .
I'm jealous. If NH wasn't next door, we'd be saved the TV ads, too. And all the obnoxious NH commuters on RT 93 every day.
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With less that 2/10 of 1% of the United Sattes population, Wyoming will never receive the campaign attention of larger states. If it got precisely its share of each candidate's time over an entire year Wyoming would deserve 16 hours. I'd argue that since Wyoming has no cities larger than the national powerhouses of Broken Arrow OK, Burbank CA or Centennial CO, that those 16 hours (out of 365 24 hour days) would be best spent by each candidiate sleeping as they rest up for visits to Billings MT, Fargo ND or Boise ID.
Presidential Candidates come to Massachusetts for fundraisers, and leave, we're sadly already considered in the Democrat Bag.