Wyoming last voted for a Democrat in 1964 and that’s not going to change this year. The Rasmussen Reports poll out for Wyoming show Senator McCain enjoying a comfortable 19 point margin over Senator Obama, 58% to 39%.
Reliably red Wyoming looks safe for Republicans with John McCain leading Barack Obama 58% to 39% in the first Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of voters in the state this election year.
McCain has the support of 90% of Wyoming Republicans and 17% of Democrats. Obama is backed by 82% of the state’s Democrats and seven percent (7%) of Republicans. Unaffiliated voters prefer Obama 55% to 41%.
Seventy-two percent (72%) of Wyoming voters say they will be voting enthusiastically for their candidate, too, while 23% will be voting against the other party’s nominee.
Sixty-two percent (62%) of voters – including 87% of Republicans — think McCain made the right choice in picking Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. Only 33% think Obama picked the right vice presidential candidate in Delaware Senator Joseph Biden, but 58% of Democrats feel good about the choice. Twenty-nine percent (29%) of Democrats don’t like the Biden pick.
No Democratic presidential candidate has carried Wyoming, the home of Vice President Dick Cheney, since 1964. President Bush received 69% of the vote in 2004.
Sixty-eight percent (68%) of Wyoming voters view McCain at least somewhat favorably, including 39% who describe their opinion of him as Very Favorable. Just 30% have at least a somewhat unfavorable view of the Republican, with 13% Very Unfavorable.
For Obama, the picture is much worse. Forty-six percent (46%) see him at least somewhat favorably, including 27% who rate their view Very Favorable. But 54% see the Democrat at least somewhat unfavorably, with 40% saying their opinion is Very Unfavorable.
As for the vice presidential candidates, 51% have a Very Favorable opinion of Palin versus 18% who feel that way about Biden. By contrast, 31% have a Very Unfavorable view of the Democrat while 20% regard the Republican that way.
Eighty-one percent (81%) think Palin is at least somewhat conservative, and 52% believe Biden is at least somewhat liberal. Thirty-two percent (32%) say Biden is a moderate.
For 36% of Wyoming voters, economic issues are their number one concern in this election cycle, but 28% say national security is most important to them.
Not surprisingly in a conservative state like Wyoming, the president’s job approval numbers are better than in most of the country. Forty-six percent (46%) rate the president’s performance good or excellent, but 37% grade it poor.
Wyoming has three Electoral College votes. The only noetworthy item in this poll is that Obama still has a hard time securing the Democratic base. Only 82% of Wyoming’s Democrats back Obama, not that would make that much of a difference in state that is heavily Republican.